Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress, sitting in special session, to open them. To help prepare this measure Secretary Woodin spent long night hours at the White House with Congressional leaders. Chief author of the bill was Virginia's tireless little Carter Glass. Next day Secretary Woodin busied himself about the Capitol helping to whip it into shape almost up until the hour it was handed to the House...
Called into special session on four days notice, the 73rd Congress, young and Democratic, sat momentously in the Capitol last week. President Roosevelt had summoned it to meet the banking crisis-Emergency Item No. 1 of the New Deal. Not since War days had the Congressional temper been so grave, so unanimously bent on speedy action. The State of the Union was so serious that the most opinionated Senators and Representatives submerged their convictions in worried silence and took orders from the White House. Other Congresses had gabbled away opportunities to rescue the country but the 73rd, with a record...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
...President's economy bill reached the Capitol before the veterans' lobbies could get into action. House Democrats promptly caucused, with their leaders bent on pledging their huge majority solidly for the measure. But, as always, pensions spawned mutiny. Tennessee's hulking Browning, A. E. F. field artillery captain, induced the caucus to adopt an amendment prohibiting the President from discontinuing a single pension now on the rolls and limiting his cuts to 25%. For the moment Speaker Rainey and Leader Byrns had lost their grip on their party, for the Browning amendment practically nullified the bill...
...Wait." As the car swung around to the long-unused north entrance to the Capitol Mr. Roosevelt noticed that the flags on the building were half-staffed. That was for the death of Montana's Senator Thomas James Walsh, his Attorney General-designate. Once inside the Capitol, they separated. Mr. Hoover going to the President's room to sign bills, Mr. Roosevelt to the Military Affairs Committee Room down the same hall to kill time. Louisiana's Long, spying the new President, started to sweep in upon him blatantly, changed his mind at the threshold, tiptoed away...