Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover did not bother to go to the Capitol for the midnight adjournment of Congress. He had ten days in which to sign bills and that could be done just as well in the White House Office as in the President's Room off the Senate lobby under the "Eye of God." Besides, Bonus-seeking veterans were making a ruction out on Pennsylvania Avenue which required police attention. The White House motor under the portico was dismissed and the President spent the evening indoors...
...Senate and a Democratic House had been groping and stumbling, hacking and thrashing through the thickest set of national problems that ever sprang up in the U. S. in peacetime. Midnight adjournment found the Senate mouthing over Prohibition, the House swapping political wisecracks and President Hoover absent from the Capitol...
...Capitol plaza was No Man's Land last week. Some 700 ragged, hungry veterans arrived from the Pacific Coast to join the Bonus Expeditionary Force, to besiege Congress for immediate cashing of their adjusted service certificates. At their head was a thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage...
...Robertson believed that the B. E. F., commanded by Walter Waters, onetime Oregon cannery superintendent, had blundered badly when it encamped at Anacostia, four miles from the Capitol. His strategy was close and continuous picketing to keep the Bonus issue squarely under Congressional noses. The first night in Washington his wayworn band flopped down on the plaza lawn, slept on newspapers after police confiscated their bedding. Next morning they trooped to the House Office Building to wash & shave. Soon thereafter Commander Robertson started them on a slow, shuffling march around the plaza that was to last four days, three nights...
...sagging spirit of the underfed B. E. F. appeared during its second parade. Early last week in the shuffling silent line of march from the Washington Monument to the Capitol were 4,701 men, 13 women, 17 children-about one half of the police census of the B. E. F. A drum and two bugles furnished all the music. General Glassford on a motorcycle circulated among the marchers, took the friendly salutes of leaders. Parades, he reasoned, do no harm, use up animal spirits. At the Capitol ranks were broken and the Veterans sprawled about to listen to political speeches...