Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presence of a lone Negro on the Republican side of the House of Representatives. He was Oscar De Priest of Chicago and he did not hesitate to speak up boldly for his race. As a result of last fortnight's election, when Southern Congressmen return to the Capitol on Jan. 3, they will find Representative De Priest gone. But their racial embarrassment will be more rather than less because they will find sitting squarely in their Demo cratic midst another Chicago Negro by the name of Arthur W. Mitchell. They may object to the color of their...
...story Newshawk Othmann uncovered in the Smithsonian basement revived for a new generation of U. S. citizens a 93-year-old art scandal that eventually cost the U. S. Government $35,000. In 1832 architects, hurrying to complete the Capitol after its burning by the British in 1814, decided that nothing would be more fitting for the central rotunda than a heroic statue of the Father of His Country. For this they got Congress to vote $5,000, and commissioned U. S. Sculptor Horatio Greenough to carve the figure. Sculptor Greenough promptly went off to the soft Tuscan...
Last week, even before the election was held, President Roosevelt was busy with the legislative program he will send to the Capitol next winter. To his office for luncheon went Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau. After the trays on which the meal was served had been cleared away Daniel W. Bell. Acting Budget Director, was called in. They were closeted until 4 p. m. Three days later the conference of three was repeated, morning and afternoon. Among the first things a new Congress needs is a budget and that was the President's prime concern last week...
...Nashville, a delegation headed by Mayor Hilary Howse was waiting to greet the Senator & party. Waving away six automobiles provided to take them to Capitol Square, where a crowd was waiting for a speech, Huey Long crisply announced: "We'll walk." On the way he stopped to order his bandleader to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; to seize a pretty brunette from the sidewalk crowd, make her march between himself and the Mayor. At the War Memorial Building, Senator Long led the university's 125-piece band, made a speech expressing his thanks for the reception. During...
Albany, N.Y., Nov. 1--New York hunger marchers, badly battered in a clash with police, "dug in" tonight, determined to march on the Capitol and force Governor Herbert H. Lehman to meet their relief demands...