Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uncle Toby." The sight of a scholarly old gentleman becoming the State's first Democratic Governor in 18 years was enough in itself to attract a crowd to the parks and lawns about the Capitol at Hartford. What made the crowd a multitude and set it to tumultuous noise-making was the appearance of an ex-heavyweight world's champion garbed in the full regimentals of a Marine Corps Major serving conspicuously on that Governor's military staff. In retrospect most observers agreed that Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney with his dress saber and gold braid stole the inauguration from...
...going to be a great Administration," perkily announced the white-haired dean emeritus of the Yale Graduate School as he took his place in the military parade to the Capitol. There he led the other new State officers, all Republican, inside where Chief Justice William M. Maltbie administered the oath of office. Immediately Governor Cross began his inaugural address in which he aggressively pleaded for a repeal of the 18th Amendment, larger veto powers, increased authority for the Public Utilities Commission. Arguing that "mankind cannot be made good under compulsion," he quoted against Prohibition Chaucer's reference to the village...
Gold Miner. At St. Paul farmers ar.cl laborers gathered to watch Floyd B. Olson become the State's first Farmer-Labor Governor.? As the ruddy-faced young Governor with slicked-back hair was delivering his inaugural address inside the Capitol, a delegation of jobless assembled on the frozen lawn outside. Said Governor Olson: "An acute unemployment situation . . . duty of State to alleviate it . . . carrying on public works." The jobless silently retorted by unfurling a banner labeled: "The warehouses are full; we are empty." Afterwards Governor Olson received the delegation's leaders in his office, told them...
Last week John Barton Payne's 75-year-old legs carried the chairman of the American Red Cross sprily up the Capitol steps and on to the ornate room of the Senate Committee on appropriations. There he sat down in the witness chair, began to tell Senators just what his organization was doing about Drought relief...
...Legistlature, ready to meet this week in a new War Memorial Building, will be asked to rebuild the Capitol immediately...