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Word: capitol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screws on its Senate followers, thus wasting Presidential strength and risking Presidential prestige. Real significance of the St. Lawrence defeat was that the President now recognized he had to husband his power, that a simple expression of his wishes was no longer the law and the gospel at the Capitol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Honeymoon's End | 3/26/1934 | See Source »

...Congressman! Nobody can arrest me!" boasted Statesman Shoemaker few days later when he learned that Newman had sworn out an assault warrant against him.- Then he quietly slipped out of the House of Representatives, disappeared. Presently two Washington detectives appeared at Statesman Shoemaker's Capitol office. His secretary assured them that the Minnesota Representative was not in. They decided to wait and see. Twice the secretary went home, twice returned. The third time, just before midnight, the secretary found the detectives ambushed in a dark corridor. He went into the ofifice, emerged grinning: "If you're waiting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: 381--3 | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...public takes to self-help to defend itself. . . ." To make the pronouncement plainer, Dr. Goebbels' newspaper, Der Angriff, published an article which flayed Jewish actors in general and Elizabeth Bergner in particular. When the picture opened, there was a mob of uniformed Nazis in the street outside the Capitol Theatre. In the lobby were police to help ticket holders through the door. The first performance, except for a few eggs smashed on billboards, passed off quietly. By the time the second performance started two hours later, the crowd in the street had worked itself up into a rage. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Bergner Banned | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...accepting bribes. The writer signed him self "One Who Believes in Honest Gov ernment, a member of the House of Representatives." Said he: "Who tells the Speaker what bills to be killed? . . . Someone behind the screen is pulling the strings." Coming, as it appeared, from inside the Capitol at Frankfort, the letter stung the Legislature in a tender spot. A committee formed to investigate lobbying wired the Courier-Journal for the name of "One Who Believes in Honest Government," threatened to subpena Acting Editor Vance Armentrout if the name was not forthcoming. Above the Courier-Journal's letter column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Who Believes in Honest Government? | 3/19/1934 | See Source »

...authority to raise or lower U. S. tariff rates by not more than 50%. He might have added that although he hoped for early action he hardly expected it. Often and candidly his Congressional advisers have told him that a tariff proposal would stir up a storm at the Capitol that would last most of the summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: First Move | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

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