Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yates muttered something back. Both men swung fists, missed. Bystanders leaped to part them. The combatants wrenched loose, sailed into each other. It was all over in a minute. His face bruised, bleeding over one eye, Yates was assisted to a first-aid station. Capitol police trotted uninjured Allen off to the Senate's detention room, from which he was shortly released...
...Having celebrated the conclusion of Congress' sixth month in session by asking it to forbid suits against the Government on gold clause bonds and changing signals on his tax plans the President finally gave Congress unofficial assurance that he would have no more legislative proposals to send to the Capitol this session...
Last week proud Virginians unveiled a great bronze bust of Native Son Sam Houston in the Capitol at Richmond...
...feel particularly good. But for all their fishing with well-baited questions the correspondents could get nothing more from him than that he might be sending still another special message to Congress that afternoon. Thus it was no great surprise when White House Messenger Latta trotted into the Capitol at 2 o'clock that same day with a Presidential document under his arm, trotted out again. What was surprising was that the Roosevelt message should be held back for more than two hours until Senator Pat Harrison could get the Social Security Bill through the Senate...
...beard and the talent of Richard Michell Upjohn were both shorter than those of his illustrious father, but he had a burning pride in his firm, inherited his father's deep devotion to the Episcopal Church and the Gothic style. Buildings by Upjohn II include the Connecticut Capitol at Hartford, Boston's Central Congregational Church, St. Paul's Church in Brooklyn, Manhattan's Trinity School...