Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's Liberty Charles Stevenson, United Pressman in Washington, had an article entitled "Congress Cashes In," in which notorious Capitol extravagances were rehashed (TIME, May 30; Aug. 29). Tucked away in the text was passing reference to the fact that the Senate supplied its financial clerk with an automobile. Taking personal offense, Charles F. Pace, the Senate's veteran financial clerk, picked up his automatic pistol one morning last week, marched up to the Senate Press Gallery, demanded to see Stevenson. When told he was out, Clerk Pace flourished his gun, talked of shooting holes...
...present law compelled the Supreme Court last October to sustain gerrymandering in Mississippi's redistricting. ¶ Heard its first farewell speech from Georgia's "Lame Duck" Lankford. ¶ Passed District of Columbia bills to close local barber shops one day per week and to allow Capitol attaches Congressional automobile tags. ¶ Received from the Appropriations Committee the first supply bill-Treasury & Post Office. Its total, $961,416,597, had been cut $32,912,304 under President Hoover's Budget estimate. Into this measure the House sank its teeth, went seriously to work. ¶ Meanwhile the Ways & Means...
Washington, its nerves still raw from the B. E. F., was in no welcoming mood. The march's leaders postponed their demonstration a day. hurried to court in an attempt to break the police line bottling up their followers. At the Capitol special guards were posted and even ordinary sightseers were turned away. Vice President Curtis consented to receive three demonstrators and their petitions-but no more. Most Senators and Representatives felt that they were fighting a foe as intangible as the widespread misery the Red marchers claimed to represent...
...Repeal. Fortnight ago Speaker Garner announced that he would put to an immediate House vote a resolution to repeal the 18th Amendment, with ratification by State conventions. As both parties had declared Wet, he favored quick disposal of the question. About the Capitol for a week there was much scurrying and nose-counting. Would the resolution muster the necessary two-thirds vote? Majority Leader Rainey thought so. Others were less certain. Die-hard Drys fumed at the State convention method of ratification, succeeded in inducing the Judiciary Committee to reject (13-to-6) the Garner resolution...
...relish as once upon a time the ogre Minotaurus in Crete devoured luscious Greek maidens-a person who, in addition, is so vulgar as to oppose every war, except the inevitable one with his own wife? "Give heed, therefore, to the sage patriotic dear ladies and remember that the capitol of mighty Rome was at one time saved by the cackling of her faithful geese." When he went to the U. S. consulate in Berlin for his visa, Dr. Einstein's tone changed after answering several questions. "I am not going because I desire to visit somebody but because...