Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around the country on Government salaries and expenses making political speeches. . . . We Democrats are more interested in relieving the country of Hoover's mistakes. The country will determine if Mr. Jannicke or Janeck, or whatever his name might be, is right."* Thus did party warfare return to the Capitol. For almost three months Speaker Garner has ruled the House with care and quiet, to a legislative record for his party. With only the narrowest margin of Democratic control, he has, by his own personal force, kept his party united and moving constructively down the middle of the legislative road...
...occasion was the 200th Anniversary of George Washington's birth. Inaugurated was a nine-month patriotic celebration. At noon President Hoover addressed a joint session of Congress, attended by his Cabinet and the diplomatic corps. After his speech he appeared at the east front of the Capitol and heard 12,000 people sing "America" under the direction of Walter Damrosch and John Philip Sousa. After lunch the President motored to Alexandria, Va. to review a parade which included cadets from Virginia Military Institute, the Richmond Blues, American Legionnaries and the apparatus which George Washington bought for Alexandria...
Belted, muskrat-capped troopers kept the crowds moving in front of the door to the Executive Chamber in New York State's Capitol at Albany last week. Inside the large plum-carpeted room, Tammany Legislators from New York City sat in glum silence. Behind a great table, in the capacity of New York's Chief Magistrate, sat crippled, smiling Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Before him stood a great barrel of a man with a soup-bowl haircut and cutaway, who looked like a slightly modernized political cartoon by the late Thomas Nast. He was Thomas...
...likes his vegetables underdone.* Only Mrs. Murray understands the proper preparation of what he calls his victuals. This diet, however, has kept him spry and supple. He can still stand on his head to amuse a rustic crowd. At his inauguration an old-fashioned ball was held at the Capitol and the Governor gave an animated performance of the "Kitchen Sweat," with the guests stomping and clapping...
...Deficit (see col. 3) was ahead. Drastic action must be taken. Messrs. Meyer, Mills and Dawes nodded their heads in agreement. Gradually Senator Glass's opposition to opening the Federal Reserve to larger bank borrowings was beaten down by facts and figures. He and Congressman Steagall returned to the Capitol where they whipped their bill into shape...