Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME does not know that not a single delegate to the constitutional convention came on the floor of the convention or even appeared in the territorial Capitol with either a belt of cartridges or pistol upon his person, or gun in his baggage...
...first woman Federal judge (New York Customs Court) ; Annabel Mathews, first woman member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals; Mabel G. Reinecke, first woman collector of internal revenue (Northern Illinois) ; Jean W. Wittich, first woman state budget commissioner (Minnesota) ; Earlene White, first postmistress of the U. S. Capitol Building. At the Palmer House two days later another conclave of women began : the International Congress of Women of a Century of Progress. To preside over it came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened...
...proposal for compulsory military training sent a handful of students scurrying to the Capitol to swear they would never bear arms for their country. Their demonstration incensed Assemblyman James H. Higgins, a Milwaukee dry cleaner, who spluttered: "I was never so insulted in all my life. Eighteen-and 20-year-old kids throwing abuse at World War veterans! . . . Their views suggested that they were believers of Communism, Bolshevism and atheism...
...will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress." The New Deal...
...very heart of our form of Government. As day by day saw our economic conditions falling lower into the depths with the untold suffering in its wake, ideas of Government alien to the principles of democracy stalked in the dark overhanging clouds and turned greedy eyes towards the Capitol and the White House...