Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have 2,500 ft. of motion pictures which I am endeavoring to have Floyd Gibbons syncronize for me to release on the screen, called- ''The Beginning of a New America, or the man that Hoover forgot, taken from the siege of the Capitol. It shows the Bonus Army from the beginning to the end-it happened I was financing the taking of a picture to raise money to furnish the food for the Army over the winter, when the eviction came. My pictures show the burning of American flags-and the burning was not done by the Bonus...
...That same year with the rest of the Government it was moved to Philadelphia where it occupied a back room on the second floor of City Hall. In 1800 it was transferred to Washington and assigned a clerk's office off the old Senate chamber in the unfinished Capitol. There John Marshall became Chief Justice. In 1810 the Court was put into the Capitol basement directly under the old Senate chamber. When in 1814 the Capitol was burned by the British, Supreme Court sessions were held in a rented building on Pennsylvania Avenue S. E. Four years later...
...Justice Taft finally argued his colleagues around to the wisdom of having a bigger & better home more befitting the court's dignity and importance. In 1926 Congress passed the necessary legislation, authorizing an appropriation of $9,700,000. Chief Justice Taft selected a seven-acre site across the Capitol Plaza and beside the Library of Congress. Condemned and demolished was an old red brick building in which Congress sat after the Capitol's burning, Confederate prisoners were housed during the Civil War and, later, the National Woman's Party made its headquarters...
...Court filed into the Blue Room to pay their traditional courtesy call on the President at the opening of their session. Afterwards eight of them lined up on the South Grounds to be photographed. Mr. Justice McReynolds who daily declines to eat tray luncheons with his colleagues in their Capitol chambers stalked off impatiently from the cameras. None of the Justices wore spats; four of them carried canes. ¶ Women helped mightily to elect Herbert Hoover in 1928. Last week he appealed again to them for group support in a nationwide radio broadcast from the White House arranged for "Hoover...
...enrollment has been increased from 1,800 to 5,000. Louisianans can now attend it for as little as $20 per month. Senator Long is responsible for 2,500 mi. of new paved roads, 6,000 mi. of new gravel roads. He built the $5,000,000 State Capitol, the $150,000 executive mansion, the State University's $1,500,000 School of Medicine at New Orleans. Thanks to him, twelve new bridges are about to span Louisiana rivers; the contract for a Mississippi bridge at New Orleans has been signed. The R. F. C. last week lent...