Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted a resolution abolishing dial telephones from the Senate wing of the Capitol...
Without asking the Senate's permission the C. &. P. Co. fortnight ago changed 450 telephones in the north wing of the Capitol and the Senate office building over to the dial system. Senators fussed and jiggled with the new instruments, lost patience. Particularly annoyed with these "abominable nuisances" was Virginia's peppery little Senator Carter Glass. He offered a resolution to rid Senators of dial telephones. Said he: "I object to being made an employe of the telephone company without compensation...
...revolt spread to the House where North Carolina's Representative Abernethy introduced a resolution to oust the 700 dial instruments on that side of the Capitol...
Sentiment in the House to which the Senate bill was sent for further action was ripe for enactment of this first enlargement of the quota system west of the Atlantic Ocean. The voice of Labor in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico was louder at the Capitol than the voice of Business...
...votes more like a regular Republican than any other member of his party, is seeking renomination in the June 2 primary. His nemesis: insurgent Republican Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, his defeated rival in a 1924 Senate election contest, who has vowed that Senator Steck will not return to the Capitol if he (Brookhart) "has to turn Iowa upside down...