Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last autumn round-domed, genial Artist Curry and his English wife were comfortably settled and accepted in Madison. Year ago, in his first public speech, he had pleasantly stirred up the town by pointing out how silly the State Capitol murals looked, a criticism to which the State Assembly stiffly replied: "It is deemed that such mural paintings truly depict and symbolize the history of the State. . . ." He gave a show at the College Union, lectured on art to farm boys in agriculture courses, went on field trips with Dean Chris Christensen of the College. His face-cracking, cherubic grin...
...more mature if not a more professorial artist. And thepossibility that Curry critics might soon have to shake their heads up & down instead of from side to side was evident in a few rough sketches for the murals he has been commissioned to paint for the Kansas State Capitol at Topeka...
...Party's Jackson Day dinner this week. While his children and grandchildren kept the White House gay during the days between Christmas and New Year's, the President put in a busy week in his study. When Congress convened this week he drove to the Capitol. There, to a packed chamber of Senators and Representatives, he an- nounced that he had finally given up hope of balancing the budget in 1939, that in attacking monopoly his Administration had no intention of attacking business as a whole, and that the current Recession was the cause of more perplexity than...
...Regional planning 5) Anti-trust law revision Last week when Congress adjourned, it had passed a five-point program which provided for: 1) $225,000 to pay members' traveling expenses to and from the extra session. 2) $12,000 for salaries of pages. 3) Lending four of the Capitol's gallery of portraits of signers of the Declaration of Independence to the Corcoran Art Gallery for a belated sesquicentennial exhibition. 4) A minor amendment to the Credit Union Act. 5) An extension of the time-limit in which a bridge may be built over the Tennessee River...
...here & there in the mass of anonymous writing, individual passages stick in the memory: the description of industrial Lawrence, Mass., of the slums of Washington, D. C. that lie within sight of the Capitol; the list of Whitmanesque place names-Corncake Inlet, Money Island, Frying Pan Shoals-in The Intercoastal Waterway; the account of Fort Fisher, in the same volume, where the sea, nibbling away at the old Confederate breastworks, occasionally washes up the skeleton of a soldier...