Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final titillating moment came last week when the nine modest Justices had to have Capitol police open pathways through the crowded corridors to their offices. If there was any doubt that the Court's decision was to be rendered that day it was dispelled 40 minutes before the Court assembled, when Mrs. Brandeis and Mrs. Butler took seats in the Courtroom. The wives of other Justices followed. But the Administration had already guessed that the decision was to come: Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull had a 1 o'clock luncheon appointment at the White House; Mrs. Morgenthau...
...five-year or a ten-year plan, but certainly not by an 18-month plan. And the campaign of 1936 is not more than 18 months ahead. If there is not recovery in 18 months then radicals will storm at the ivory gates of the Capitol. The Huey Longs, the Upton Sinclairs, the Father Coughlins, the Dr. Townsends- their successors, their deputies, their proselytes, or their social kin-will be the strong men of politics. Only Recovery can ward them off, can save Franklin Roosevelt from having his left flank turned. Therefore a helping hand to Business and Recovery, more...
Often seen but seldom heard about the Capitol is Representative Walter Marcus Pierce. He frequently sits in the front row of the House with a heavy gold watch chain garlanded across what, in the days of Roosevelt I, would have been jocularly called his bay window. Formerly he was Governor of Oregon. His present wife and secretary is Oregon's former State Librarian. At 73, he is slightly deaf and his voice quavers, but he has a great air of wisdom. He also has six children (by his first wife) and he is Congress' chief advocate of permitting...
...save time he would receive Congressional callers at his office in batches, require them to come up to his desk and whisper their requests. Senator Sheppard of Texas once had to wait eight days to get a private appointment. So intense was the feeling against Secretary Ickes at the Capitol last week that House Democrats refused to vote an additional $4,000,000,000 for public works and emergency relief until they had been assured by President Roosevelt himself that Public Works Administrator Ickes would have practically nothing to do with this new fund...
Speeches might slow but could not stop the steamroller. To keep it going the President sent a message to the Capitol on conservation, to accompany the report of his National Resources Board. In it he said: "A permanent National Resources Board, toward the establishment of which we should be looking forward, would recommend yearly to the President and the Congress priority of projects in the national plan. This will give to the Congress, as is entirely proper, the final determination in relation to the projects and the appropriations involved...