Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the White House in 1933 because there was no election that year. But this is 1934 and the whole House and one third of the Senate must go to the voters in November. That difference largely accounted for last week's resurgence of the pension problem on Capitol Hill where the regular session had been sitting a bare fortnight...
...Capitol Hill last week marched a cohort of Birth Controllers for their annual harangue before unheeding Congressmen. At the head of the column strode Mrs. Margaret Sanger in green cloth, and Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn in black...
Also called to order at noon, 88 Senators answered their roll. At 1:20 the Senators, led by Vice President Garner, marched out of their chamber two-by-two, passed down the Capitol's central corridor. In front of the main door of the House, the procession came to a halt...
...sentiment began to fall on the Slough of Depression. Nine months ago men realized there was a rising flood. By October when the last of the old gold standard was submerged many a man saw in his mind's eye the members of Congress assembling in an inundated Capitol wading through the green waters of the flood, legislating in a sea of deep greenbackery. Last week the prophets of catastrophe saw that they were at least in part mistaken. The flood looked silvery, not green and the direction of its drift indicated that it had turned into another course...
Most sacred stewardship of any Congress, and especially the 73rd Congress is the country's Money. "Taxation without representation" was the cause of the above scene-the Ways & Means Committee (part of it) holding a hearing in Room 15 on the Capitol's main floor. All revenue legislation must originate in the House, in this committee. Chairman Doughton (spectacles up, biting nails) is a North Carolina farmer with eleven House terms behind him. Representative Treadway of Massachusetts (right) is the ranking minority member, the Republican watchdog who would get Mr. Doughton's chair should parties change. Chairman...