Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Idaho Falls, Idaho, Eldon Cleverly was sentenced to jail for attempted rape. His pregnant wife promptly went to Boise, paraded through the State Capitol corridors, announced: "I will walk up and down till something is done for my husband. I'll have my baby in the hallways." Impressed, Governor Barzilla Clark let it be known that he would appeal to the State Pardon Board for the prisoner, because "such action on my part may be warranted...
...years ago under General Manager Kent Cooper's dictum that it should not be ''spontaneous news, but clean anecdote, humor and history." Fourteen months ago AP's feature chief, Hearst-trained William T. McCleery, assigned Preston Grover to apply his salty Utah touch to this Capitol comment. Not gossipy but increasingly spicy, Preston Grovers column attempts humor, shuns scandal, specializes in harmless speculation...
Playing at Washington's Capitol Theater, famed good-looking Mimic Sheila Barrett included in her repertoire the well-known caricature of a virtuous Southern girl starting out for a big night in Manhattan, winding up drunk in a night club. After Miss Barrett had played the bit for five days, a lady member of the Georgian Society protested that the impersonation was "not a true picture of Southern women." Miss Barrett was promptly ordered to remove the bit from her act. She agreed: "I'm here to entertain people, not embarrass them...
...slim, energetic young man, whose eyebrow mustache and rimmed spectacles made him look a good deal like Comedian Charlie Chase, Wayne Coy went first to Indianapolis to testify against two politicians who last spring attacked and beat him in a corridor of the State Capitol. From Indianapolis he went to Washington where he called at the White House, was later entertained by Senator Minton, with whom he used to live...
...House had plenty of help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for Congressmen in his swank 23rd Street home. Economist-Lobbyist John E. Dalton, ex-chief of sugar for AAA, wrote carefully prepared treatises and reference books demonstrating the need for protecting U. S. refiners and refinery workers (of whom there are only 16,000). Ex-Senator-Lobbyist Hubert D. Stephens of Mississippi...