Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the White House to the Capitol went a message urging the Senate to approve U. S. membership in the World Court. It was the eighth message from the fourth successive President to that effect...
...second time in seven months a Governor of North Dakota last week called armed soldiers into the skyscraper Capitol at Bismarck to protect himself against forcible ejection from office. With a court action to oust him already in progress, the Nonpartisan League-controlled House had impeached Democratic Governor Thomas Hilliard Moodie twelve days after his inauguration for unspecified "crime, corrupt conduct, malfeasance and misdemeanors in office." Everyone knew the real charges were that: 1) having admittedly voted in Minnesota in 1930, he was ineligible for the governorship under North Dakota's constitutional requirement of five years' continuous residence...
Last week President Roosevelt had on his hands a Congress and in his head a cold (see p. 46). In these circumstances the Congress had to wait its turn. To amuse the Senate the President sent up to the Capitol for confirmation the nominations of 3,616 assorted Government officers appointed since the last Congress adjourned. The House was allowed to fritter away a couple of days debating the Independent Offices Appropriation bill including an item of $10,400 to buy electricity for the White House. Thus the President gave Congress some excuse for being in session, until his detailed...
...mutual helpfulness" when it got the pensions of disabled veterans upped from $30 to $100 a month. A second proof came in 1924 when it induced Congress to vote a bonus payable in 20 years to some 3,500,000 veterans. In 1931 the Legion was back at the Capitol, demanding and getting, under threat of political reprisals, legislation whereby veterans could borrow 50% of the face value of their bonus certificates. And in 1934 it secured the restoration of a large part of the pension cuts made by President Roosevelt in the name of Depression economy...
Connecticut. Between brilliant lines of the Governor's Foot Guard old (72) Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby'') Cross, one-time Yale dean, marched into the Capitol at Hartford last week to be received by the General Assembly and sworn in for his third term as Governor. An hour later he marched out again, still unsworn. Deadlocked between Republicans and Democrats with three Socialists holding the balance, the Senate continued to take ballot after futile ballot to elect a clerk. Governor Cross went ahead with his Inaugural Ball that night, was sworn in late next day after the Socialists...