Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speaking for myself, I accept the challenge of the gentleman from the other end of the Capitol. Let us have it out. I do not propose, as a member of this body, to surrender upon that principle. I do not propose to accept the implication and the slur. We will either feed these people, or we will stay here and tell the American people why we do not feed them...
...storage space. This fact will definitely limit the capacity of central district business property to develop until it is altered. The broad policy that agencies creating parking loads should provide for them in off-street facilities, was specifically confirmed during the past year by a report of the National Capitol Parking and Planning Commission of Washington, D. C. This report recommended that the Government provide storage space for the five thousand vehicles which will be used by the 25,000 Government employees occupying the administrative group how under construction...
William Edgar Borah. Greatest Insurgent of them all, the man whose shadow from the Capitol falls farthest across the land, is thickset, long-lipped, blue-eyed William Edgar Borah of Idaho. All the world knows that he is the Senate's supreme orator, that he rides his horse "Governor" alone in Rock Creek Park every morning, that on his head is a mane of shaggy dark hair. All the world does not know that he carries a pocket comb, that he licks his thumb and slicks down his eyebrows, that he scribbles his name on loose paper when listening...
...hunt of the House of Representatives last week hacked slowly home to the Capitol where it reported on its eight-month beating of all the coverts of the land for sly Communist foxes. With a majority of his investigating committee supporting his views. Chairman Hamilton Fish Jr. contended...
What brought Chairman Payne to the Capitol was the fact that the Red Cross was under political fire. Senators from drought States were charging that it had fallen down on its relief job, were demanding that the U. S. Government step in and feed hungry husbandmen. Congressional attention had again been focussed on drought relief by last fortnight's demonstration at England, Ark. where 500 men & women with threats of violence obtained food from local merchants (TIME...