Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House was dog-tired at the end of the hardest week of the session. It was ready for adjournment at midafternoon, and voted it. But over at the other end of the Capitol, West Virginia's stripling Senator Rush Dew Holt had led-strangely enough, since it was the United Mine Workers who had helped elect him and John L. Lewis was frowning down from the gallery and cursing him for a traitor- a filibuster against the substitute Guffey Coal Control Bill. Spelled by colleagues eager to speak their pieces in the nation's ear for the last...
...House after early breakfast every day, clearing up regular desk work, going to the dentist, making a solemn little speech to University of Kansas seniors (where the Chancellor slipped and introduced "the Governor of Indiana"), getting out to the Hunt Club for a ride on Si, his chestnut gelding. Capitol employes wanted to install a radio to listen to the Cleveland doings but Alf Landon told them: "We've got too much work...
...late Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel began a weekly broadcast called "Roxy and His Gang." Purpose was to promote the Capitol Theatre, huge Manhattan cinemansion of which Major Edward Bowes was part owner. In 1925, Rothafel left the Capitol to direct the new, plush-lined Roxy Theatre, took his "Gang" idea with him. The Capitol's program continued as "Major Bowes's Capitol Theatre Family," with Bowes acting as an unctuously friendly master of ceremonies in the Roxy manner. In 1934, a veteran at the microphone, Major Bowes began an "Amateur Hour" over New York's small Station...
...last week so he could give his attention to steering the bills he wished to pass Congress, blocking the bills he wanted dropped. Then Death laid a finger on Speaker Byrns (see col. 3) and all President Roosevelt's plans changed. Instead of going on to the Capitol on Saturday to sign last-minute bills, he went there Friday to the Speaker's funeral, traveled to Nashville for the Speaker's interment. At Nashville he was more than three-quarters of the way to Arkansas, where he opens his speaking tour this week, but lest...
...GOOSE ON THE CAPITOL-Leonard Bacon-Harper ($1.50). In light satiric vein, Poet Bacon airily smites the political hydra of a Presidential year...