Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something'' was the philosophy which Franklin Roosevelt announced two months ago at Baltimore. But last week, although it was touch and go whether Congress would adjourn June 6, the President took a strictly laissez faire attitude toward legislative matters. No message of his was rushed to the Capitol to spur jaded legislative steeds or to direct their course. At his press conferences he told newshawks that he really had not heard how the tax bill was getting...
Texas' founding fathers picked Austin for the State capital because of its natural beauty, perched on bluffs above the Colorado River. The State Capitol of pink Texas granite, biggest in the U. S., was built by Chicago capitalists, paid for with 3,000,000 acres of public land which later produced oil, are now worth about $60,-000,000. University of Texas at Austin (enrollment: 7,000) scraped along on its 2,000,000-acre endowment until oil was struck in 1923, since when it has become the richest and one of the best state universities in the land...
...jitters that some of the Congressmen are in as a result of the mandates they are receiving from their constituents. It is fun. I am always spoken of as a soft-voiced, mild-mannered old chap. I have not received an unfriendly word from a single man at the Capitol building...
...patron, the late, great Senator John Sharp Williams, for promotion from a Federal District Court in Mississippi to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Fourteen years ago when Mississippi's Governor Lee Maurice Russell was being tried for seduction of a State Capitol...
...question was, would the Crimson soldiers march on the Capitol in answer to headquarters' invitation...