Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior the Senate had finally passed (72-to-11) the measure after President Hoover's spectacular dash to the Capitol (TIME. June 6). His belated and ambiguous recommendation for a "general manufacturers' excise" tax the Senate impatiently brushed aside. Long after his return to the White House, Senators orated angrily against his sudden visit to their chamber, called it an unnecessary publicity stunt...
Last week the Supreme Court of the U. S. adjourned its 1931 term for the summer. So great was the excitement at the House and Senate ends of the Capitol that little public notice was taken when the highest tribunal quietly vacated its chamber in the building's centre. It will reassemble for its 1932 term Oct. 3. Box score for the court's 1931 term...
...relieve the President of hasty trips to the Capitol to sign bills the last day of an expiring Congress. For a century Presidents have been confused as to their Constitutional time-limit under such circumstances. To play safe they went to the President's room outside the Senate chamber and there raced through last-minute measures passed before noon on March 4. President Hoover signed a minor claim bill on March 5, 1931. The Supreme Court held this perfectly legal, ruling that a President has ten days in which to act on legislation after a Congress ceases to exist, just...
Cogs. Congressional duties in Washington were expected to reduce materially the presence of Republican Senators and Representatives at the Chicago meeting. A few, because they were big cogs, were obliged to be on hand. Others might play hooky from the Capitol. Thus Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio had to attend as chairman of the Republican National Committee and gavel the assembly to order at 10 a. m. the first morning. Then he would turn the presiding office over to Senator Lester Jesse Dickinson of Iowa who as temporary chairman would sound the party's keynote. Next chunky, heavy...
Blame & Congress. Widespread was the financial opinion last week that the bad state of U. S. Business was in no small part due to Congress and its vagaries on the Budget & Taxation. Washington tipster services hinted darkly of a "dictatorship." Bankers and industrialists complained bitterly of "uncertainties" at the Capitol. They were quite positive that if Congress passed an equitable tax law, approximately balanced the Budget and adjourned by June 10, their immediate troubles would be over...