Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman ($9,000), who "joined" last year by contributing $2 to a fund for Loyalist Spain. A few did not even know that they were...
Even legislators who had never heard of Henry Adams were inclined to feel hit. Next day there was a great rubbing of sore heads on Capitol Hill. Senators charged the picture lowered the Senate's dignity. Three Senators (who declined to be quoted) upheld Senatorial dignity with these pungent comments on the film: "Not all Senators are sons of bitches." "Punk!" "It stinks...
...have been a member. We have condemned the utilities, we have condemned Dr. Townsend; but at least they had to have offices downtown. They had to employ secretaries. They had to buy typewriters and, at least, they did not set up their committees under the dome of the Capitol...
...echoing rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, when the last creaking footstep of the final tourist has died away, when the Capitol police unbutton collars and open night-school lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed...
...Return to Law." Next day, and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's trip to the Capitol, was his mother's 85th birthday. "I don't think my son has the slightest wish [for a third term]," said she at Hyde Park. Her son in Washington was guarded almost as though the U. S. were at war. Ringing him, barricading the approaches to the House chamber where he was to speak, were 150 Washington police, extra Secret Service details, 150 Capitol guards. They policed even the press galleries, stopped Attorney General Frank Murphy when he brushed past. Conspicuously...