Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sojourn in Washington during the Christmas recess revealed to the writer that things have changed since the days of Coolidge prosperity. For one thing, newspapermen now hang out around the White House rather than Capitol Hill. There's no news on the Hill. In the halls of the Capitol, it is said that Congressmen plead with newspapermen to tell them what the dope is over at the White House. "What bill are we going to advocate." the Chairman of a prominent House Committee is reputed to have asked a reporter. "I know you've just spoken to the President...
...tall, grey, portly, he tackles his problems like the engineer that he is and his relief problem is not like that of most Governors. His State has no debt whatever; its pay-as-you-go policy has paid for all State highways and for the $10,000,000 State Capitol. Nebraska's freedom from debt is due, however, to statutory restrictions on the issue of bonds. Nebraska has had to leave her problems entirely to her local govern ments. Sales taxes, income taxes or some other new taxes are necessary both to save the schools and finance relief. Engineer...
...Capitol Boss Guffey herded them all together for a lesson in practical politics. As newcomers to Congress most of them could not expect much immediate preferment but Mr. Guffey pointed out that for them to get their due and perhaps a little more their best course was to stand and deliver their votes in a body. Twenty-three votes from Pennsylvania would put Representative Byrns into the Speakership when Congress meets Jan. 3 and for that each member of the delegation would undoubtedly get his reward in terms of good committee assignments...
Somewhere near the Capitol at Frankfort, Olympia, Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions...
...Paul local newspapers were asked to play down the Chase junket but they insisted on playing up President Campbell, their home-town-boy-who-made-good. One of "Don" Campbell's first jobs had been a clerkship in the State Capitol. Said the president of the Chase National Bank: "And, gentlemen, you should have seen my office, much finer than my office in New York...