Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...personal Progressive following for the Old Guard Republican nomination. In Congress: In the Senate Bronson Cutting promptly identified himself with the Progressives. His first windmill was the ''dirty book" provision tacked onto the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bill. In one of the gaudiest shows ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting...
Thus the U. S. Supreme Court began a session which will be its last in the old Capitol quarters, which will not end until June and which is expected to be the most epochal since the stormy days of Chief Justice John Marshall...
...this period when the N.R.A. is being radically reformed, when the entire administration is contemplating changes in policy, this outright statement of twelve thousand editors assumes major significance. Taxpayers look to the Capitol uncertainly and with a growing feeling of indignation. Burdened now with heavy taxes a greater increase might break their weary backs and a policy of inflation would only aggravate their financial plight. Fearfully they justly ask where is the money coming from to support such expensive administrative policies and they know that sooner or later they must...
...stenographer at the State Capitol sued Governor Russell for seduction and ex-Governor Bilbo was called as a witness. Bilbo is no prude, but he did not want to be drawn into a friend's girl trouble. He hid out in a backwoods farm until Governor Russell was acquitted...
...collection of North American bird drawings-a collection which some experts rate as the best since John James Audubon (TIME, Sept. 12, 1932).* By last week almost all of "Rex" Brasher's 874 original pictures, valued by him at $500,000, had been moved to the State Capitol vaults at Hartford...