Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Across the Capitol in the House, Mississippi's John E. Rankin led the NLRB attack. Fighting the Board's request for a bigger appropriation to handle some 200 cases every month, Congressman Rankin swore he would oppose appropriating another dollar "until representatives of NLRB cease the communistic activities by which they are stirring up strife in every section of the country, and especially in the Southern States. I cannot withhold my protest until the streets of Southern towns and cities are stained with the blood of innocent people...
...Washington. Returning from a vacation in Texas he had joined the train which brought back the bickering mourners from the funeral of Senator Joseph T. Robinson (TIME, July 26) and set foot in a scene of the greatest political confusion which Washington had witnessed in many years. At the Capitol a group of resolute Democrats stood entrenched with the firm resolve that the Supreme Court Bill should not pass. At the White House, mile and a half away, sat a grim President not only determined that it should pass but still expecting that it would. From the moment...
...called at the White House and saw Franklin Roosevelt. Later at the Capitol he gave audience to a delegation of Senators, most of them freshmen counted on to vote for the Court Bill, who felt that unless the President would make a further compromise, they would vote to send it back to the committee. The Vice President told them what he meant to do. That evening, he took Senators Harrison, Barkley and Pittman and went back to talk to "The Boss." He even got in touch with Senator Wagner, about to write a stinging reply to Governor Lehman...
Roused by a crime in the shadow of the State Capitol, Governor Fred Cone screamed: "This was not a lynching;it was murder...
...adaptable Roy Davis has had two separate and successful careers. He got his political start as a page to U. S. Speaker Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, continued it after taking a Ph.B. degree at Brown in 1910 as secretary to the commission in charge of building the Missouri capitol. He married a Missouri girl named Loyce Enloe, and branched out as an educator in 1914 by joining the administrative staff of Stephens, which young President James Madison ("Daddy") Wood was just beginning to develop into a horsey mid-western finishing school (TIME, June 7). Seven years later Roy Davis...