Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal top-hatted delegation which a more conventional Administration would have expected Congress to have sent down Pennsylvania Avenue to say the same thing that Leader Robinson had made a joke of. His children, grandchildren, wife and friends following in four cars behind, the President rode hatless to the Capitol. His secretaries clucked their tongues at the wreaths of mist which hung about their bareheaded chief as he swung up a ramp to the House wing. On the arm of his son James he passed into the well of the House and after a round of applause and a volley...
...Bank of New York. The Business School, by way of the Bank of England, proffered and then received back the stormy petrel of inflation, Oliver M. W. Sprague. It remained for the Law School, where liberalism burns with a less frozen flame, to uphold the University's reputation on capitol hill and to beat its rival Law Schools hands down in point of influence on the Administration. Thanks to Professors Landis, Sayre, and most of all to the resourceful Felix Frankfurter, Harvard apparently has at least the legal destines of the New Deal well in hand...
...going to have a short, harmonious and constructive session." predicted white-crested Speaker of the House Rainey last week as he led 432 Representatives back to the Capitol for work and the one regular session of the 73rd Congress. "It will be a very important session but there will be no dramatic instances to write about. It will be a working session-pass supply bills, tax bills and liquor bills and adjourn early in May. There will be no attempt to overthrow anything the last session of Congress enacted and there will be no attempt to oppose the President...
...stirring record for President Roosevelt but added little glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat one year hence...
...learning anything, he has retired into a silence which will probably not be pregnant of the rash bombast that he has displayed in the past. Mr. Snell's confreres are also quietly lugubrious, and it looks as if the President has once again outsmarted the boys at the Capitol at their own game...