Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long career of James John Davis as a Federal jobholder was punctuated last week by a 33-minute lapse into private citizenship. Resigning as Secretary of Labor, the Senator-elect from Pennsylvania was delayed that length of time at the Capitol while North Dakota's Senator Nye challenged his eligibility. The charge: more than $600,000 was spent to elect the ticket on which Mr. Davis ran. The Senate's prompt vote (58-0-27) to seat Mr. Davis gave Pennsylvania its full elected Senate representation for the first time in nearly four years. As Senator Davis took...
...information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." So says the U. S. Constitution. President Hoover last week obeyed the injunction for his third time in 21 months of office. He did not go to the Capitol himself. Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra. The Nation's legislators take an opportunity like this to go and eat their luncheons, gossip in the lobbies...
Halfway down the Capitol corridor, the Supreme Court took up its reading of decisions. At the corridor's end, House members were still milling in their chamber, for Speaker Longworth was late. The women of the House, all in black or grey, most of them wearing orchids, held reception, surrounded by clamoring...
Suddenly, a shot was fired in the vicinity of the Capitol steps. There was hoarse clamor out there, contrasting rudely with the goodfellow hilarity in the House. Down the broad stone stairway leading from the Capitol gates into the street the advance-guard of a crowd of 500 Communist demonstrators was rushing pellmell. Their jeers rose into the mild, noon air. Led by a giant Negro, they had marched up the steps bearing banners legended: DOWN WITH THE ADMINISTRATION! DOWN WITH DEPORTATION ! WE DEMAND . . . JUSTICE FOR THE FOREIGN BORN...
Police under Captain S. J. Gnash had been warned and were ready for them, drove them back in consternation with tear-gas pistols loaned for the occasion by the Army Chemical Warfare Service. Soon Washington from the Capitol to the Peace Monument (a quarter-mile) was the scene of seething struggles between Reds and policemen...