Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driving one evening from his office in the Capitol to his home at Berwyn Heights, Md., he recollected that he had an errand at a grocery store. At his request the automobile was stopped at Cottage City, a mile beyond the District of Columbia boundary. Orel Leen, a member of his office staff, guided the sightless Senator across the street to a store. They were on their way back when another car came zipping out of the dark, ran them down. Smash! Broken glass littered the pavement as Driver Lester G. Humphries stopped his car, was arrested for reckless driving...
...halls are not uniformly blessed. Last week in Boston Victor L. Chrisler of the National Bureau of Standards revealed that the nine Justices of the Supreme Court of the U. S. are homesick for the good hearing that they enjoyed in their little vestibule of a courtroom in the Capitol. In their vast new marble chamber, in their vast new marble building, the acoustics are so poor that when Mr. Justice Roberts at one end of the bench leans forward to ask a question, Mr. Justice Cardozo at the other end can hardly hear him. Even when a stentorian counsel...
...Fort McPherson on the city's outskirts to be greeted by the Commandant, by Georgia's Senators Russell and George. All that Atlanta saw of Governor Eugene Talmadge, archfoe of the New Deal, that day was a stuffed effigy, red suspenders and all, hanging in the Capitol grounds and bearing the legend "Coolidge did not choose to run. Gene needn...
...bottom of the whole difficulty is the hopelessly vague and loosely-drawn Neutrality Act, which shows the mental lassitude of our present Congress even more vividly than some of its more prominent but equally ineffective pieces of legislation. The gentlemen on Capitol Hill, as has been customary with them, showed an admirable good will, adopted a purpose with which most of the country could agree, and then sank under the dead weight of their own mediocrity. Instead of taking the bit between the teeth and actually determining just what implements of war, are, they acknowledged their own lack of initiative...
...murals, has done much to decorate his native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna, but the Chicote Bar, a beer cellar known as "Zum Lustigen Walfisch." a drugstore in the Calle Sevilla, the bar of the Capitol Building, the Lyons Silk Shop, and the swank offices of International Telephone...