Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Topeka. The Governor's Topeka speech drew a crowd estimated at twice the size of the one that turned out last month to hear Charles Curtis accept the Vice-Presidential nomination in his hometown. Speaker Garner joined his teammate at the State Capitol. Said he: "I've come here to show you that I wear neither horns nor hoofs though I come from Texas...
...Pioneer's schedule was Jefferson City where Governor Roosevelt would briefly attend a Missouri Democratic Convention. The next day he was to arrive at Topeka where Harry Wood ring, Democratic Governor of Republican Kansas, would be his host, give him a dinner at the executive mansion. At the State Capitol Nominee Roosevelt is to deliver the first of four full-length speeches on the trip. He will tell Governor Woodring, Senator McGill, James A. Reed, Governor Murray of Oklahoma and Governor Bryan of Nebraska?a critical lot?his solution of the farm problem...
...Vice-Presidency. They did not refer to the fact that about 35% of the delegates at the Chicago convention voted against him for a second term. Comfortably full of Senator Arthur Capper's luncheon, the Vice President received the news on the north steps of the State capitol. That location was chosen for economy's sake, as no expensive awning was needed to shade the notifiers. With the Vice President were his sister, Mrs. Dolly Gann; his daughter, Mrs. Leona Knight; his rambunctious son Harry. On the lawn were 5,000 spectators. Nominee Curtis made a speech...
...McAlester Penitentiary is an old man whose paintings hang in several offices of the Oklahoma State Capitol, in the prison mess hall and the warden's house. In 1898 Charles Matthew Conrad Maass suspected his wife of putting poison in his breakfast pork and sauerkraut. He fired three charges of buckshot into her. In his 33 years in jail he has painted hundreds of pictures, sold not one. Like Dannemora's artists, he too copies his pictures, sometimes from memory. Called the Mad Artist, he is irrational except for his ability to copy pictures. His subjects include...
...clubs last week forced the National Medical Federation of Cuba to call a strike. The clubs, or centres?notably the Galician Centre and the Asturian Centre each with about 100,000 members ?are among Cuba's richest institutions. Tourists often mistake the ornate Asturian clubhouse near the new Capitol Building for President Machado's palace which is several blocks away...