Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's Battle of the Bonus between the White House and the Capitol was a fast-moving drama of legislation. The President was against it, financially, economically, morally. But that greatest of political bugaboos, the "soldier vote," had stampeded an overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives toward H. R. 17054, regardless of their private judgment. Fortnight ago the House had rammed the measure through by a 363-to-37 vote. Last week came the Senate's turn to show its disdain of White House opinions...
Colorado's capitol building at Denver makes an ideal home for visiting pigeons. The crannies are comfortable and from time to time Colorado's philanthropic legislators provide a penny's worth of peanuts, prime pigeon fare. But last week the birds returned evil for good. Through a window they entered the legislative chamber, scratched, cooed, flew about the high ceiling making themselves a nuisance. Debate on a $600,000 appropriation bill was dropped, the Speaker called the janitor. The janitor called his assistant. His assistant called Electrician Fred Karns. Finally, over the protest of several legislators...
...receive before long the most active discussion, readers can judge for themselves the realism of the undergraduates' battle. The war of arguments at Jordan Hall next Wednesday night, March 4, will be at least in the nature of a skirmish preceding the final engagement in the halls of the Capitol, and to some extent foreshadowing the major lines of the conflict...
...Capitol steps at Washington last week tramped a delegation of 150 jobless under Communist leadership. Quietly they marched past police guards into the House corridors to petition Speaker Longworth for Unemployment insurance. He would not see them. Some of them straggled up into the House gallery. From that vantage point one Fred Kearns of Pittsburgh arose, began to shout: "I protest! I protest against the arrest of -." Over his wide-open mouth was clapped the hand of Chief Doorkeeper Bert Kennedy. Angry cries from the House floor: "Throw him out! Shut him up!" Two policemen ejected him while other Reds...
...recess. For two hours Red orators bellowed and inveighed from the rostrum against the legislators, demanded Unemployment relief. "Chair warmers! Yellow fakers!" screamed an 18-year-old girl at House members who tolerantly cheered her gusto. During the chamber demonstration, 50 Reds slipped down to the basement, entered the Capitol restaurant, gorged themselves on baked apples and crackers...