Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well informed political observers at the Capitol and Samuel E. Morison '06, professor of History and leader of the opposition to the statute for the Teachers' Association, were confident that the proposal would be passed by the higher body by an overwhelming vote and subsequently signed by the governor...
According to those familiar with political trends at the Capitol, fate of the law which was passed under the Curley administration hung in the balance, until, after a heated debate, the results of the roll call were announced by the Speaker. Frequent allusions from the floor to ex-Representative Thomas A. Dorgan, sponsor of the Bill, who sat with drawn face, in the gallery, intensified the argument...
...stamp with likenesses of his old accomplices, General Ulysses Simpson Grant and General Philip Henry Sheridan at his side. But to many Georgians and South Carolinians, General Sherman is still repugnant in any form. At Columbia, where an indignant legislator heatedly recalled that the west wall of the State Capitol still bears scars made by Sherman's cannon balls, the South Carolina House oi Representatives passed a resolution calling upon South Carolina's national Senators and Representatives to demand that the Post Office Department stop the memoria issue because the military career of General Sherman "is a history...
...march on other ardent New Dealers in Congress, most of whom were immensely pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little criticism was voiced at the Capitol in the first 24 hours following the shock of its reception. Senator Robinson promised that it would receive "favorable consideration...
...just as he did four years ago for his onetime student Franklin, for Franklin's mother, wife, sons, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, and miscellaneous kin* and friends. Act II lasted for 40 minutes, from the time Franklin Roosevelt entered the robing room in the Senate wing of the Capitol to the time he went out to take the oath. Outside, under a sea of ineffective umbrellas, several thousand soggy people who had for hours been progressively impregnated with cold rain stamped their feet in impatience. On the open pine-board stands continuously flushed by the downpour some Congressmen...