Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alighting from his train in Washington, Vice President Garner again withdrew into a stony silence on national affairs. The next time newsmen saw him he was wandering around the House wing of the Capitol. He did not deny that he was "homesick for the old place." In a brighter mood, he pounded his small paunch. "Look at this waistline," he cried. "Know how I shaved off four inches this summer? Every day I went out to my pecan orchard and stooped over 125 times, picking up one nut each time. Say, that's great exercise...
...week. If they do not know it already, the three new Senators-Wyoming's O'Mahoney, Vermont's Gibson, New Mexico's Hatch-whom Mr. Garner will swear in on opening day, will soon learn that silence leads only to obscurity and defeat at the Capitol. Senator after Senator returned to let off accumulated six-months' blasts before their well-loved Washington soundboard...
...that he must choose his Man of the Year from within his Government. Who? No member of the Cabinet, with the debatable ex- ception of busy Secretary of the Interior Ickes, had stood out head and shoulders above his fellows. No Senator, no Representative had glittered individually at the Capitol. In the White House sat Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He was Man of the Year in 1932, when the New Deal was new. More popular than the day he won the Presidency, he had lived up to the brightest expectations of the electorate. But he needed no fresh laurels, could well...
...spite of his spectacular name, he has sponsored no radical legislation, has sought no spotlight. In Washington he and his wife live down by the Union Station in the Capitol Park Hotel. He acts and dresses like any ordinary businessman, smokes his pipe incessantly, tends quietly and fairly ably to his business as a legislator. His new tax proposals show conclusively that he is no longer bent on "soaking the rich...
...Service Inc. (TIME, Sept. 25). And last week the brewing quarrel between the Press and Radio flared up hotly when Columbia News Service made so bold as to try to invade a most sacred citadel of journalism -the press galleries of the National Senate and House of Representatives. The Capitol press gallery admission rules specify "persons whose chief attention is given to telegraphic correspondence for daily newspapers or newspaper associations. . . ." It was not Columbia's idea to broadcast directly the voices of Congressmen in debate or dalliance. That departure in governmental publicity, tried in Chile but abandoned because...