Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senators on their way to the Capitol to debate the Stock Exchange Control Bill one day last week were startled to read in Washington papers the Declaration of Independence as an advertisement. They were even more startled to read: "This advertisement is paid for by Frazier Jelke & Co., members of the New York Stock Exchange." But search as they might the Senators could find nowhere the customary tagline of all financial advertising: "The above information is derived from sources which we believe reliable but is not guaranteed." As all member firms must, Frazier Jelke had to submit Thomas Jefferson...
...others: Colonel Greenway of Arizona, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia, Zebulon B. Vance of North Carolina, all in Statuary Hall in the Capitol; Abraham Lincoln in the Capitol Rotunda: General Phil Sheridan in Sheridan Circle...
...Herald Tribune), a Gainsborough portrait brought $5,100, a pair of 16th Century Brussels tapestries, $8,000, the entire collection, $155,897.50. Following a threat on the life of Kentucky's Governor Ruby Laffoon, two guardsmen were placed on patrol duty between the executive mansion and the State Capitol at Frankfort. Said Governor Laffoon : "If I get a few minutes notice before anyone starts shooting. I'll outrun any of them in spite of my game leg."* In Manhattan Bibliophile Abraham S. Wolf Rosenbach paid $10,100 for the small, precise squiggle of Georgia's Button Gwinnett...
Queen Elena left the Quirinal Palace first in a State berlin, with a company of cuirassiers riding before. The Royal Princesses followed in other berlins. The Palace guns boomed and between their salvos the great bells in the Capitol belfry could be heard a mile around. Arrived in the Chamber of Deputies, the Queen and her ladies were escorted to a box. Below on the floor were palms and 800 black-shirted Senators and Deputies...
Negroes in Congress Sirs: TIME, April 2 : "Best known Negro in Congress is Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois. Best-liked Negro at the Capitol is Harry Parker, messenger of the Ways & Means Committee since William McKinley was its chairman 45 years ago." The above statement is true. Harry Parker has been a good, honest and smiling servant for is 45 to years...