Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol, reports spread that Senator Reed, a delegate to the London Conference who had seen the secret papers, had said their production would help the Treaty but would also stir up "personal animosities and ill-will." This led to a generally accepted Senate surmise that in the documents exchanged between President Hoover and Premier MacDonald, the President had remarked with cutting candor upon the personal and political peculiarities of the very people now opposing the Treaty, had discussed Admirals and Senators and Big-Navy propagandists in terms so frank as to stir up a hornet's nest...
...Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted (10-to-7) a resolution asserting "its right to have full and free access" to all Treaty data. When Secretary Stimson was served with a copy of this resolution, he hurried to the White House, conferred long with President Hoover. "Impeachment." At the Capitol Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explaining the resolution to newsmen, admitted that the President could not be forced to give up the papers, declared with a smile: "There would be no remedy except through impeachment - and that's too slow." Broadcast Blast. Secretary Stimson went...
President Hoover's desire to get the Senate to ratify the London Naval Treaty resulted last week in great marches and counter-marches between the Capitol and the White House, charges and counter-charges between the Senate and the Department of State. The President was more actively aroused than ever in his determination to keep the Senate on the job until the Treaty should be disposed...
Wreckers were last week invited to bid on the razing of two whole blocks of Washington buildings opposite the U. S. Capitol. Four apartment houses, 40 garages, and the old brick building where Congress met after the Capitol was burned by the British during the War of 1812, are to be destroyed. On the two blocks is to rise Architect Cass Gilbert's $9,740,000 edifice for the U. S. Supreme Court...
...Capitol's legislative and judicial laboratories, a decade of scrutiny and debate has been expended upon those cloudy tinctures, the 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act. Since the Volstead Act (1919) the only major refinement of the Federal liquor code was the Jones Act (1929), denning violations as felonies (instead of misdemeanors) and establishing maximum penalties (five years, $10,000). Under President Hoover's urging, further refinements progressed last week in Congress and Supreme Court...