Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill the President requested Congress to recall and amend it. The bill's sponsors, Representative Dickstein and Senator Copeland, grumbling at the demand for a change, went to the White House, found that the State Department had found a real flaw. They took the measure back to the Capitol, got Congress to accept a four-word amendment, and two days later the President blessed it with his signature. ¶Under special powers granted by the Recovery Act, President Roosevelt last week upped the tariff on Japanese cotton rugs from 10? to 25? a sq. yd. The increase...
...Minnesota he designed a $4,500,000 classical Capitol of Georgia marble and granite, a 142-ft. rotunda. His Municipal Building in Waterbury. Conn, was pure colonial in brick and white marble. Detroit's white marble Public Library was Italian Renaissance. The Union Central Life Insurance Building in Cincinnati was a towering office building. The $10,000,000 West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston was Classic. In 1899 he won a competition with a French Renaissance rendering for a U. S. Customs House in Manhattan, moved to Manhattan shortly thereafter...
...down mean shame. . . ." But Dr. Calver is too discreet a man to discuss the upping of his rank and pay while the matter is in hot dispute. He begged leave to say not a word on the subject and retired to the two small, photograph-decked rooms under the Capitol's dome which constitute his office, examining room and dispensary. Dr. Calver draws $292.50 a month as a commander in the Navy on special duty with Congress...
...Representative Edward Everett Eslick dropped dead while addressing the House (TIME, June 27, 1932). Dr. Calver worked vainly to restore him. More successful was he when Representatives James William Collier of Mississippi, Mell G. Underwood of Ohio and William I. Sirovich of New York were taken ill at the Capitol...
...Representatives considers Dr. Calver its own attendant and gratefully this spring passed a resolution to promote him from a commander to a rear-admiral. Senators, who make fewer calls on Dr. Calver, resolved to make him a temporary captain while the Navy kept him detailed to duty at the Capitol. In conference the House and Senate compromised on a bill promoting Dr. Calver to the permanent rank and pay of a Navy captain...