Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah suggested that someone should remind King George about Britain's $85.000,000 War debt payment which she is defaulting as usual this month. California's Senator Downey said he would be too busy with "American business" to join his colleagues in receiving Their Majesties in the Capitol rotunda. (The spot picked for this ceremony was under a portrait of Pocahontas, facing pictures of the surrenders of Cornwallis and Burgoyne, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.) Bush-bearded Representative Tinkham of Massachusetts asked to be assured that the royal visit portended no entangling alliance. Courtly Senator Ashurst...
...Senate wives were miffed because only about half of their husbands were invited to the garden party at the British Embassy. Last week Sir Ronald Lindsay lunched with Vice President Garner and several Senators at the Capitol and afterward all Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention...
...dollars. More & more public spending, in the absence of private investment, is known to be Mr. Roosevelt's sorcery against this old nightmare, as always before. Last week, therefore, observers were not surprised to see his Secretary of the Interior, "Honest Harold" Ickes.- master of PWA, appear on Capitol Hill before the Relief bill subcommittee...
...Administration leaders on Capitol Hill let it be known that they would like Congress to adjourn by July 15, a date chosen because by then Mr. Roosevelt will have entertained the King & Queen in Washington and in Hyde Park and returned from his annual cross-country survey "to see what the nation is thinking." Until July 15 (at least) Congress will simmer in Washington over: 1) Neutrality legislation, which had seemed moribund until Secretary Hull pleaded last week for amendments to allow sale of arms to (good) nations at war, 2) a tax bill, 3) Social Security. Mr. Roosevelt could...
...wouldn't the King and Queen visit the chambers of Congress instead of receiving Congress in the Capitol rotunda? His Majesty, Sir Ronald corrected would not receive members of Congress they would receive him. Furthermore His Majesty, restrained by British custom from appearing in the chambers of Parliament except to deliver his annual speech from the throne of the House of Lords,* naturally hesitated to visit the chambers of another country...