Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May the Louisiana Legislature convened in the new $5,000,000, 33-story Capitol at Baton Rouge for its regular 60-day biennial session. Down from Washington as State boss popped Senator Huey Pierce Long to see that things were started according to his will. His mission concluded in three days, Senator Long went back to Washington to resume his national duties. Thereupon the Legislature promptly fell into a do-nothing deadlock which lasted more than a month...
When Congress adjourned last month, Boss Long was again at liberty to turn his attention to his hand-picked Legislature. With a flourish his automobile shot him up to the steps of the Capitol. Surrounded by plug-ugly bodyguards he rose by private elevator to the office of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen. Up jumped Puppet Allen to surrender his seat and down sat Senator Long at the Governor's desk to take command. On one side of him was a loudspeaker which, by a twitch of the dial, let him hear debates in House or Senate. On the other...
Died. Robert Remen Arnold, 36, State Capitol reporter for the Albany Evening News; from a fractured skull caused by falling from a second-story window at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.), where he was attending his 18th class reunion...
...farmer, was unfit to be the first man to fill the brand new office of Undersecretary of Agriculture. Both practical questions were answered in the affirmative. At the last minute, while Dr. Tugwell's fate hung in the balance, Reuben Gosnell's appointment came through to the Capitol. Although Senator Smith had committed himself too far to back down, the Senate by the over whelming majority of 53 to 24 confirmed Dr. Tugwell. Although only six Democrats voted against confirmation, there was many another who at heart distrusted the dapper young professor's theories and would have...
...owned 157,000,000 acres of land. Today 330,000 Indians have only 47,000,000 acres, and many of them are dependent on government bounty. Indian Commissioner John Collier, agitating a New Deal for Indians, has for months been shuttling back and forth between the palefaces on Capitol Hill and the redmen on the reservations, holding solemn pow wows in both places about a new law (TIME, March 12). That law would give them an independent system of courts, buy new land for the landless and, in general, impose upon them added responsibility for their own welfare. Solemnly...