Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that was mortal of Huey Pierce Long was buried last week in a copper-lined vault sunk in the front lawn of the State Capitol at Baton Rouge. From the 33-floor tower of the Capitol which the murdered Dictator had built as a $5,000,000 monument to himself and which now served as his headstone, reporters saw that the vast funeral crowd had choked the roads for miles around. Below, ringed by 100,000 spectators, of whom some 200 fainted during the long wait before the services began, lay a great bright field of floral tributes: little bunches...
...reports he could have been tied up, taken to jail, and given a fair trial. Courts act quickly in such cases. This is what happened to Zangara, the would-be assassin of President Roosevelt, and to the slayers of Garfield and McKinley; yet the scene in the Louisiana state capitol resembled the settling of accounts between rival gangs...
...Commission; signed the AAAmendments; appointed Laurence J. Martin of Virginia Acting Administrator of NRA's skeleton; approved an order to the State Department to crack down on Russia for permitting the Third Internationale to conduct subversive activities in the U. S. (see p. 19). Word arrived from the Capitol that both Houses had passed a resolution to adjourn at midnight. Joyfully, Franklin Roosevelt sat down to do his final duty, dictated...
Then he went for his afternoon swim, got dressed. His personal secretaries and Secretary Morgenthau sat down with him to dinner. Afterwards he went up to his study, talked to the Capitol by telephone. At 9:30, with an array of microphones before him on his desk, he spoke to the Young Democrats of America. When he finished he called the Capitol again. The news of adjournment was not so good. It got worse. In the Senate the matter of cotton loans was the slip that had come between...
...rudely roused from its studies when Senators Gerald Nye, Bennett Clark & friends, fired with a passion for peace as a result of their investigation of the pipsqueak U. S. munitions business, popped out proposals for mandatory, two-sided embargoes on arms, loans, credits. Panting from White House to Capitol, Secretary of State Hull persuaded President Roosevelt to take a firm stand for discretionary legislation, persuaded the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to snatch back its partial approval of the drastic Nye-Clark proposals. Thereafter State Department experts and Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis were left to putter in peace with their...