Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Object: 1940. The statesmen of Capitol Hill were rudely jolted by the energy and ingenuity of Corcoran & Cohen in the days when the firm was steering New Deal legislation-Ben Cohen sitting at committee chairmen's elbows as prompter at hearings, Tom Corcoran whisking through Capitol corridors to trade, purr, cajole, threaten or crack down for votes. Many a Congressman sensed that these high-powered lobbyists for the President had a low opinion of most U. S. politicians. More shocking to traditional statesmen-especially to old-line, locally intrenched Democrats-was the conception of a Liberal party which...
...Investigation. So in Washington last week the committee charged with policing 1938's Senate campaigns was stripped down to dutiful little Senator Sheppard of Texas (chairman), urbane Senator White of Maine (the sole Republican), lumbering Senator David Ignatius Walsh of Massachusetts. In an air-conditioned office at the Capitol, this trio scanned reports from ten field investigators, kept the press informed of its opinions on the political campaign...
...saloonkeeper who became a preacher after his saloon, ''Old 410" (No. 410 East Douglas Street, Wichita), was smashed by Carrie Nation on one of her first rampages, Gerald Winrod was obscure until 1935 when, after a trip to Germany, he blossomed out as proprietor of the Capitol News & Feature Service of Washington, D. C., alleged by proletarians to be financed by German Nazi money and watched over by the German Embassy. Through The Defender (organ of Winrod's "Defenders of the Christian Faith"), which now claims 110,000 circulation, and his own big personal mailing list...
Should some Capitol cataclysm remove 14 such potent House committee chairmen as Ways & Means' Bob Doughton of North Carolina, Judiciary's Hatton Sumners of Texas, as many junior Congressmen would be upped by seniority. Southern leadership would be decimated, and the way of future measures like the recently enacted Wages-&-Hours Bill (see p. 9) would be greatly eased. Lacking the necessary cosmic powers, C. I. O. politicos last week proposed to accomplish the foregoing and more by an Act of Labor...
Thomas Hart Benton received $16,000 for the remarkable murals of American life which he painted on 1,000 square feet of wall surface in Missouri's capitol at Jefferson City. Also full of salty realism was his autobiography, An Artist in America. A Kansas City real-estate operator named Howard Huselton read the book till his eyes popped, found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered...