Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Damage: $5,000. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol and its official proprietor, found masses of government documents of no historic worth destroyed, a portrait of himself ruined. A falling beam had smashed a ten-foot plaster model of the Capitol...
...Capitol rumor: The storage room, tucked off in a nook by itself, was used as a drinking place and general rendezvous by Capitol employes...
Suspicious citizens immediately linked the Capitol fire with that at the White House offices fortnight ago, spoke darkly of incendiarism. Both blazes had started mysteriously under the roof amid bales of documents at about the same evening hour when the buildings were deserted. Exclaimed Senator Vandenberg of Michigan after the Capitol fire: "This is more than a coincidence...
Willebrandt v. Hoover? On Capitol Hill, Senator Borah busied himself collecting data to support his charge against the Prohibition enforcement personnel "from top to bottom." Audible at the White House was a rumor that none other than Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, with a grudge against the Department of Justice and Attorney-General Mitchell, was supplying Senator Borah with his evidence for further assaults upon the Hoover administration's Dry record...
...could do a 'service for 'Dry America,' " said Senator Fess. ¶ Involved explanations by Attorney-General Mitchell to the effect that since March one U. S. district attorney has been ousted, five forced to resign. Senator Borah thought this record "unimpressive." ¶ Muffled thunder over Capitol Hill of the storm of Prohibition debate, gathering during the holidays, about to break...