Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stage manager of this legislative demonstration last week was slim, almost chinless, 34-year-old President David Lasser of the Workers Alliance of America. By now a thoroughgoing professional at marching his squads of unemployed into a State capitol and virtually taking over the legislative proceedings in the name of higher relief standards, Lasser and his Workers made their headline debut at Madison, Wis. last March. There soft-hearted Governor Philip La Follette welcomed them into the State House, provided them with food, advised them to "turn the heat" on the Legislature. After they had camped in the Senate chamber...
...After tongue-lashing the Government's relief policies, they voted by "129,958-to-21,413" to unite with other jobless unions, notably the National Unemployment Councils, Communist Herbert Benjamin's organization of radical-minded unemployed which had been staging intermittent "hunger marches" on the U. S. Capitol ever since 1931. Three weeks later, members of this new and larger Workers Alliance invaded Trenton, N. J., occupied the State House, jeered the Legislature with abandon, were finally thrown out by police for their bad manners (TIME, May 4). Last week's Harrisburg extravaganza was on a pattern...
...From his capitol in Concord, Governor Henry Styles Bridges of New Hampshire tried to make the best of what was nothing less than a calamity to his little State. Gloomed the Governor...
...Gallinger Municipal Hospital, taken to a private sanatorium at Towson, Md. for an indefinite stay. Let out in an exercise yard there, he sprinted to a 7½ ft. wire mesh fence, scaled it like a monkey, outran his astonished guards to freedom. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home...
...Florida's senior Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, to whom the President owed much gratitude for important New Deal service in the chairmanship of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, who got credit for selling the idea at the White House and who became its champion in the Capitol. An inland waterways enthusiast since he went to the Senate in 1909, the 77-year-old son of Captain Thomas Jefferson Fletcher, C.S.A., was gravely dismayed when Michigan's Vandenberg last winter convinced the Senate that his latest & greatest project was not only useless but dangerous, might turn south Florida into...