Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many a Washington tourist could identify the next Governor of the Federal Reserve Board as the gilt-lettered name of the donor of a fine head of Abraham Lincoln, sculptured by famed Gutzon Borglum and standing in the rotunda of the Capitol...
...Other fires in U. S. buildings at Washington within the year: White House offices on Christmas eve (TIME, Jan. 6); the Capitol (TIME...
...Eighth Oklahoma District, had been arrested by Federal Dry agents while firing for $15 per week the boiler of a 500-gal. still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against him; the $7,500 slander suit his secretary, Miss Ethelyn Crane, won against him; the 1? verdict he was awarded in a breach of promise suit against Miss...
...session's closing day when, snoring loudly, he napped on a lounge in the House lobby, with a white lily in one hand, in the other a bill for Federal eradication of venereal diseases by an expenditure of $50,000,000. Said he on leaving the Capitol : "The smell of liquor on all sides has sickened...
President Hoover was worried last week about the London Naval Treaty. The special session of the Senate he had called against the advice of Republican leaders at the Capitol was not speeding the instrument toward ratification as swiftly and smoothly as he had anticipated. Senators opposing the Treaty had jockeyed the Senate into requesting him to submit confidential documents relative to its negotiation and, when he refused, the opposition brought forth an offensive reservation to the Pact. While no open filibuster yet existed, it became plain to the President that the Treaty would not be disposed of in ten days...