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Word: capitols (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visit from Georgia Power Co.'s Preston Stanley Arkwright, he consented to a new provision in the revenue bill putting the electricity tax on consumers instead of producers. For him is being used the claim that he is Georgia's most distinguished statesman at the U. S. Capitol. He made a hit when instead of using his Congressional frank to save money, he mailed out campaign literature marked "postage paid." The primary race is considered nip & tuck. Impartial House observers rate him thus: An able, experienced legislator above the average in political pluck and national outlook; a conservative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital he was billeted in a Government-owned building on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of thousands, he took part in the demonstration at the Capitol the day Congress adjourned without voting immediate cashing of the Bonus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

More serious trouble was presented by the Treasury's attempt to repossess Government property on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue, three blocks west of the Capitol. Wholesale warehouses, a cheap hotel, automobile showrooms, a Chinese restaurant and an undertaking shop occupied the row of old ugly brick buildings on this site. The U. S. had bought up the land as part of its plan to beautify the Federal City (TIME. May 6, 1929). The plot was to be converted into a park. Wreckers had knocked the walls out of the buildings when the B. E. F. began to arrive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

...rout of the B. E. F. from Pennsylvania Avenue broke its back. But the military was not yet through. It "gassed" small scattered camps in the vicinity of the Capitol, shoved out their occupants, left smoking ruins behind. By 9 p. m. the troopers had advanced to the Anacostia bridge, beyond which on the mudflats lay Bonus City, the B. E. F.'s main encampment. The camp commander rushed out waving a white shirt for a truce, asked for time to evacuate the several hundred women and children. He got an hour's grace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Battle of Washington | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Though Congress vacated the Capitol fortnight ago, its manifold committees, regular, special, select and joint, were left last week with plenty of summer work to do. The House and Senate had ordered a mass of investigations, probes, surveys, inquiries, studies, inquests and hearings, each of which meant toil and travel for one or more members at public expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Summer Hangovers | 8/1/1932 | See Source »

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