Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paper in his hands, his annual budget message was being droned aloud by Reading Clerks in Congress (see p. 11). No longer, however, did the figures of that budget total up as they had totaled when he gave it a last pat of approval and dispatched it to the Capitol. The Supreme Court's 6-to-3 decision had rendered the $547,000,000 worth of processing taxes, on which the President had counted, nothing more than a row of nine ciphers. Because no one yet knew how many of the round billion dollars already collected as processing taxes...
...small, however, beside the pleasure Franklin Roosevelt felt in surprising Republicans with his message on the State of the Union to Congress. Quietly he had arranged with the broadcasting systems the day and hour when his speech should be delivered. From the radio men who rushed to the Capitol for permission to install microphones...
Last week Leader Bankhead was back at his Capitol office, promising that this year the New Deal should not go leaderless in the House. Already Washington was filling up with the bigwigs of Congress. Democrats from Speaker Byrns to Senator Harrison were singing the same old tune: a short and peaceful session adjourning in May. If that was to happen it would require much good work on Leader Bankhead's part, and he himself had no illusions. Said he: "I look for a snappy session but not necessarily a short...
Second and more important imponderable is Franklin Roosevelt who, as all Washington knows, has an impulsive habit of thinking up things for Congress to do at the last minute. Last year he tossed a new tax bill without warning into the Capitol on the eve of adjournment, precipitated late-summer anguish for all concerned. Now, intent, as he has announced, on a short session of Congress, he has made up his mind to a short legislative program. But at any time he may decide that the U. S. wants a new act to promote low-cost housing, amendments...
...leisurely days when the U. S. Supreme Court was housed in the Capitol basement and fashionable ladies flocked to it every afternoon to listen and admire, legalites like Henry Clay and Daniel Webster got off some of their finest flights of eloquence at its bar. Nowadays, the nine hard-pressed old men who sit on the Supreme bench have no time to listen to oratory, demand facts. Last week Forney Johnston, 56. a New Deal-hating Birmingham attorney, known for his acid courtroom flings, got a lesson which was enough to send every prospective Supreme Court pleader in the land...