Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dreams (TIME, June 13)-signed an executive order roping off a wide section of Washington over which civilian pilots may not fly without special permission from the Secretary of Commerce. The area: a quarter-mile outside of the rectangle at whose corners stand the Union Station, the Capitol, the Naval Hospital, the White House...
...delegations stayed at different hotels last week in Washington. But John Lewis insisted on seeing them together at his palatial new United Mine Workers headquarters. There he gave them a stiff six-hour talking to. Grim and tired, Leader Lewis emerged to announce that all parties would go to Capitol Hill next day to lobby for an important labor bill, an amendment to the Walsh-Healey Act making compliance with the Wagner Act a prerequisite for firms awarded Government contracts. After that, the factions were to reconvene at the Lewis headquarters...
...terms with Justice Black. And, leaping on the back of Chief Justice Hughes's remarks to the Law Institute, the New York Daily News's enthusiastic Washington Correspondents John O'Donnell and Doris Fleeson broke all records for conclusion jumping on the subject: "Developments in the Capitol . . . suggested again that some of the lawgivers of the United States Supreme Court had hitched up their judicial robes and in dignified fashion were in the process of putting the slug on their colleague, Associate Justice Hugo L. Black...
...Last week, Mrs. Norton was so conscious of the difficulty of her task that she sent a wire to Indiana's Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes, asking her to make a special trip from home to sign her name. Mrs. Jenckes flew East but she arrived at the Capitol in time only to witness the celebration of an astounding victory...
...House fight which killed the President's Reorganization Bill so enthusiastically that last week his picture adorned the cover of Social Justice. This paper is edited under the guidance of Father Charles Coughlin, whom Mr. O'Connor two years ago was promising to kick publicly from the Capitol to the White House. Last week, the Reorganization fight over, Franklin Roosevelt invited Mr. O'Connor to the White House to discuss something else entirely: the Wages-&-Hours Bill which, reported by the Labor Committee last fortnight, needed only a special ruling by the Rules Committee, of which...