Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle Senator Long had made of himself and the Senate stirred revulsion in and out of the Capitol. Many were the Democratic oaths sworn over the cloakroom cuspidors. Senator Tydings threatened to resign from the Senate and "let some one else from Maryland come here and look on if he wants to." Arkansas' Senator Robinson. Democratic Floor Leader, fairly boiled with indignation and disgust. Already the wily "Kingfish" had captured the allegiance of his junior colleague, Mrs. Hattie Caraway. Desperate, Senator Robinson moved for cloture. a rare parliamentary proceeding limiting debate to one hour per Senator...
...President on the way out, especially if he has been beaten by the biggest vote in history, has small authority over a "lame duck" Congress. Yet last week President Hoover sent Congress a special message on debtor relief which touched off sudden springs of electric action on Capitol Hill...
Throughout the nation the poignant wail of the debtor beats relentlessly upon political ears. At Logan, Iowa, last week 400 farmers forcibly halted another mortgage foreclosure sale. At Sidney, Neb. farm leaders prepared to march 200,000 irate debtors to the State Capitol at Lincoln and "tear it down" unless they got relief. In Wisconsin, Democratic Governor Schmedeman, after receiving a delegation of farm strikers, issued a proclamation calling upon circuit judges to hold all mortgage foreclosures in abeyance until the Legislature could declare a moratorium. Some judges promised to comply; others claimed they were legally powerless to obey...
Died. Samuel Austin Kendall, 73, Representative-reject from Pennsylvania (Republican), good friend of Ambassador Mellon; by his own hand (pistol), in the House Office Building; in Washington, D. C. Reason: loneliness since his wife's death last August. He was the first Congressman suicide on Capitol Hill...
Outside Congress: He lives at No. 857 Green Street in San Francisco, swims regularly at the Olympic Club. His Washington home on Maryland Ave. S. E., half a block from the Capitol plaza is an old renovated brick house filled with French period furniture. There he lives with his wife, the former Minnie McNeal who, aged 17, married him, aged 20, in 1886. Their two sons practice law in San Francisco. Worried about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile...