Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor immigrant Irishman. To counteract the Hawes agitation President Hoover sent Secretary Hurley to the Philippines last autumn. He left Washington determined that the U. S. should hold on to its Pacific possession. He returned with the same fixed idea. Last week he was summoned to the Capitol to testify on a bill prepared by Senators Hawes & Cutting which would progressively free the Philippines over a five year period. Before the Senate Territories & Insular Affairs Committee the following dialog occurred...
When he heard what his party was doing across the Capitol, House Leader Rainey, old Amherst fisticuffer, threw a new proposal into the ring. Observing that the Federal Government had never had much luck getting back money loaned to States he advised: "If the Federal Government is going to distribute relief, then it had better handle such relief itself...
...celebration will officially start on Washington's Birthday when President Hoover delivers his George Washington address before Congress, to be attended also by the U. S. Supreme Court, Cabinet members, foreign diplomats and invited celebrities. Following his address, the President will march out to the east steps of the Capitol to lead the singing of "America" by 10,000 massed voices accompanied by three bands and conducted by Walter Damrosch. The composite result will be broadcast. There will be afternoon exercises at the Washington monument, a ball in the evening for which the costumes were designed by one Anne Washington...
Grant's Secretary of the Interior (1875-77). Chandler's dour effigy now stands in the Capitol's Statuary Hall. The Hales inherited a large slice of the Chandler fortune, made in dry goods in Detroit. Scion of two such potent and distinguished families, young "Freddie" Hale was carefully schooled (Lawrenceville, Groton. Harvard) and steered into the Law as a stepping stone to politics. His father's name and fame helped him to get elected to the Maine House of Representatives for one term (1904). In 1916 he was elected to the U. S. Senate where...
Outside Congress: A rich bachelor, he lives in his ancestral home, a big brownstone house on fashionable 16th Street. He drives himself to & from the Capitol in a Ford, keeps a big limousine and chauffeur for social purposes. The Senate's most inveterate sportsman, he bowls and boxes daily at a gymnasium, plays golf in the 70's at Burning Tree Club, shoots ducks, goes to Alaska to hunt Kodiak bear, and bring their cubs back to the Washington zoo. Socially he moves in the best Washington circles but prefers admirals to most of his Senate colleagues...