Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Representative Dunn described how Everett Parker, a fellow War veteran, came to his office last January to ask for food for his family, how he had gone to the Parker home at 311 D St., only four blocks from the Capitol. There Representative Dunn found "this little woman and her babies sleeping in two smutty three-quarter beds in one little room where there were no sanitary facilities; no running water, all huddled there together." Of Father Parker, who has an impediment in his speech and a hernia which prevents him from doing any heavy work, Representative Dunn declared: "This...
...Senate bill would apply not only to all lobbyists at the Capitol but to those who appear similarly before all branches of the Government. The House bill, less broad though in some respects stricter, requires the registration of all organizations seeking to influence legislation or the election of Federal officeholders (except actual political committees)*; the registration of every person employed as a lobbyist together with reports every three months of his employers' names, all his salaries and fees, all his expenses of $10 or more, the names of all newspapers and periodicals "in which he had caused...
Fourteen years ago U. S. District Judge Edwin Ruthven Holmes of Mississippi sentenced Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo to 30 days in jail for refusing to testify at the trial of his political mate, Governor Lee Maurice Russell, on charges of seducing a State Capitol stenographer. Last week Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo had his chance to get even, with Judge Holmes. His nomination to be United States Circuit Judge, Fifth Circuit, was up for Senate confirmation...
After four and a half hours' debate, the House exercised its highest constitutional function by impeaching Judge Ritter by a vote of 181-to-146, sending his case across the Capitol for trial by the Senate sometime next month...
...were smart, though, not to give those guys from Harvard a chance to say much. Why, they would have been talking their theories right there in the State Capitol, right under the American flag. And besides when they once get started you know yourself they can convince you of just about anything. The might even have made you think the oath bill wasn...