Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Message to Alben. On the morning Joe Robinson was found dead Governor Clifford Townsend of Indiana paid a pre-arranged call at the White House. His remarks to the press in leaving were almost ignored in the excitement of bigger news, but they were not overlooked at the Capitol. Of Indiana's two Democratic Senators, one, Frederick Van Nuys has been a vigorous opponent of the President's Court Plan, the other, Sherman Minton, as vigorous a supporter. Governor Townsend told the press that he didn't "think the organization could nominate Van Nuys again...
Meantime the Congressional delegation had filed by Joe Robinson's bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation...
Harry Parker had held various jobs around the Capitol for 17 years before he went over to the potent House Ways & Means Committee as janitor. At that time Chairman William McKinley, beaten in the 1890 elections, was packing up for Ohio. Mr. McKinley left his Bible for Harry. Years later Sereno Elisha Payne, chairman of the Committee during Taft's Administration, gave him his furniture. Oscar Underwood's legacy was a complete wardrobe including a big Stetson...
Decorated by Italians of diluted talent or by conscientious U. S. beautifiers, the walls and domes of many a courthouse, library and State Capitol still witness the sad state of mural art during the late igth Century. Strongest and soundest murals of the period were done in 1876 by Henry Adams' friend John La Farge for Trinity Church in Boston, and later for Manhattan's Church of the Ascension. But La Farge worked in the European tradition, had little influence on his best successors...
...Constitution Avenue, a fact which the President said aroused his "deepest sympathy." The commission's new quarters, to be ready early next year, will be part of the vast new triangular pile of Government buildings on Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues, halfway between the White House and the Capitol...