Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding and contempt of court constituted a breach of the peace-one constitutional ground for a Congressman's arrest. After much argument behind closed doors, Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor was told...
...past two years angry unemployed have besieged the Legislatures of Texas and Illinois with demands for more & better relief. Two months ago members of the Workers' Alliance, No. 1 jobless union, marched into the Wisconsin Capitol, spent ten days in the Assembly chamber, were finally put out by police. All last week members of the Workers' Alliance squatted in the New Jersey State House at Trenton while the Legislature was in brief recess. Reason: New Jersey had run out of State relief funds, and 270,000 jobless had been turned back to local authorities to be cared...
...permanent chairman Democrats picked, almost inevitably, President Roosevelt's most faithful Capitol standby, the Majority Leader of the Senate, Joseph Taylor ("Joe") Robinson of Arkansas...
...horns and red pointed ears. From Stalin's head extend over the map of the U. S. red tentacles labeled, "League Against War & Fascism," "William Z. Foster," "The Daily Worker" (strangling a factory), "Earl Browder" (strangling the Statue of Liberty), "Herbert Benjamin," "Harry Bridges" (strangling the U. S. Capitol) and "American Student Union...
...Congress passed an act providing a gallery in the Capitol to house "statues of two distinguished citizens from each state who were illustrious for their historic renown." Since then 35 states have made contributions to Statuary Hall. A few of the figures are known to every schoolboy (Washington and Lee from Virginia; Daniel Webster from New Hampshire; Andrew Jackson from Tennessee; Samuel Adams and John Winthrop from Massachusetts; John C. Calhoun from South Carolina; Sam Houston from Texas). Most of them, though, are second-rate politicians of the last century whose fame has already faded out of history...