Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week spring had come to Washington, D. C. and Senators found it hard to keep their minds on the Big Navy Bill. Representatives went out on the Capitol lawn and played baseball, badly, with each other. Then both the Senate and the House recessed over the weekend so any legislators who wanted to could go to the annual Azalea Festival in Charleston...
...Abraham Lincoln and 2) the sinking of the Titanic. Auguries and omens are things which Franklin Roosevelt ignores. Last week, he began April 14 by working till 2 145 a. m. preparing the message to Congress. After six hours' sleep, he rose, breakfasted, sent the message to the Capitol, delivered the Pan-American Day speech at the Pan-American Union Building, received six Campfire Girls and a delegation of United Automobile Workers officials, and delivered the fireside chat...
Unabated, the next day he told a press conference that he was planning soon to send the Capitol messages: 1) on removing tax-exemption features from future issues of U. S. bonds and 2) on antimonopoly legislation. Then, having blanketed U. S. front pages by simply making news as completely as any dictator could blanket the columns of a censored press, Franklin Roosevelt polished off his week by attending to his correspondence of some 10,000 letters, watching 30,000 children roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn...
...almost 30 years pampered U. S. Senators have ridden 750 feet underground from the Senate office buildings to the Capitol, first in two rickety storage-battery cars, since 1913 by two monorail electric trolleys. All this time Representatives, who outnumber Senators 435 to 96 and are therefore a traffic problem, have had to walk through their tunnel from the old House offices to the Capitol. Last week, as Representatives were looking feebler than usual after rejecting Reorganization, they learned that Assistant Capitol Architect Horace D. Rouzer had told a House Appropriations subcommittee that Representatives might rest their legs as well...
Because the House subway dodges sewers, water pipes and roots of great elms on the Capitol grounds, it posed engineers a tortuous problem. Solution: an endless belt of aluminum plates strung together on the escalator principle, with enough play to take the curves, and powered by seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning...