Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nearly five months Huey Long has lain under the grass of the State Capitol lawn at Baton Rouge. Yet so deeply did he stamp his policies and personality on Louisiana that last week when half-a-million Democratic primary voters went to the polls to choose one man to be Governor and two to fill Long's Senate seat, the fabulous "Kingfish" seemed to walk abroad once more. Both factions of the State's Democracy still called themselves "Long" and "anti-Long...
Early this month President Roosevelt sent his budget to the Capitol telling Congress all he cared to tell about U. S. finances to the end of fiscal 1937. Last week, while the Senate Finance Committee was considering the Soldiers' Bonus (see above), some of its members, headed by North Carolina's supercilious Josiah William Bailey, decided they ought to hear what Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau would have to say about the effect of paying the Bonus on U. S. finances...
Hence one day Secretary Morgenthau went to Capitol Hill to answer questions. Mr. Morgenthau was squirming in quiet discomfort...
...Administration got together in Washington a meeting of farm leaders to approve the New Deal's new plan for agriculture: crop control through soil conservation (TIME, Jan. 20). While AAA's lawyers were busy trying to draft a workable law, trouble was brewing at the Capitol. Farm leaders who rubber-stamped the New Deal's idea were already calling on Congressmen to advocate other proposals. One group wanted to take 30% of customs receipts to subsidize exports. Another group advocated guaranteeing farmers their cost of production. A third group demanded enactment of the domestic allotment plan...
...Paris.* Once back in his native country his success as an architect was rapid. Rebelling against the General Grant era of architecture, he won competitions right & left while his prize-winning designs brought in other commissions. One of his least successful, most "Richardsonian" buildings, the New York State Capitol, was the cause of a great scandal. He was called in as architect after graft and mismanagement had used $7,000,000 of public funds and only carried the original design of Architects Arthur D. Gilman and Thomas Fuller through the first floor. The graft continued. The handsome metal ceiling that...