Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Supreme Court. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to the U. S. Supreme Court. There he quickly grew famed for his liberal thought, for the clarity and grace of his expression, for the vigor and regularity with which he dissented from the opinions of a conservative majority. Leaving his Capitol office one day in 1932, aged 90, he said to his assistants, "I won't be in tomorrow." Thus, simply, he withdrew to the quiet of his old-fashioned red brick house on Washington's I Street...
...Munitions Committee could not consider the request immediately because Missouri's plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark last week tumbled down a flight of stairs in his home, was too sore to go to Capitol Hill. Senator Nye saw ''no reason to question the motives of Mr. Hearst...
...Franklin Roosevelt, aristocratic scion of an old Dutch family. Together they fought for liberal social legislation, became fast friends. "Bob" Wagner went on to the Senate while "Frank" Roosevelt was in training for the Presidency at Albany as Governor. Last year Senator Wagner served as chief advocate at the Capitol of President Roosevelt's New Deal for labor. Last week Senator Wagner turned against two of his old friend's prime social policies and fought the President tooth & nail...
...hopeful against the hopeless. As he came to his conclusions and put the finishing touches to his message to Congress for NRA's renewal, he was painfully aware that he was about to set off a fresh batch of oratorical pinwheels and skyrockets at the Capitol. Congressmen had not had a good rousing debate on NRA for more than a year and practically every member was spoiling to take the floor and fulminate on some minor grievance of NRA Administration within his district. There would be much noise, the President knew, and some light-but NRA would undoubtedly...
Lesser men than he were among the seven U. S. Presidents whom Elihu Root has counseled. In 1908 his own qualifications for the Presidency were unequalled. Teddy said he would crawl on hands & knees from the White House to the Capitol to make Root President. Then he chose Taft as his successor. He knew, as Republican managers did again in 1916, that Statesman Root was simply not "available." He was too brilliant. Politicians had long since learned that the U. S. electorate distrusts high intellect and imperturbable calm...