Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish behavior both on & off the House floor that even Congressmen who like a little eccentricity to liven the legislative atmosphere had begun to regard him as the Capitol's No. 1 problem child...
...without warning, roared back to the House Office Building, leaped out, ran up the steps. The sergeant gave chase, begged him to "act like a gentleman." "Take off your glasses and draw your gun," cried Marion Zioncheck. In the ensuing scuffle the sergeant suffered a sprained finger, facial bruises. Capitol police joined the fray, helped hustle Representative Zioncheck into the guard room. Swearing he would sue the police department for false arrest, he finally agreed to go to court. With the courtroom jammed, Representative Zioncheck, acting as his own attorney, pleaded guilty to the speeding charge but insisted that...
Unvisited by Capitol sightseers, there lies beneath the marble chambers where Senators & Representatives make the nation's laws, a musty rabbit warren of empty rooms, dark corners, labyrinthine corridors. Into these one cold night last winter crept a hungry, jobless Negro named Fulton Augustus Bond, out on bail after an arrest for vagrancy. A one-time employe in the House restaurant, he found icebox foraging easy, became a trencherman. Capitol police, drawn largely from the job-hungry following of Congressmen, bothered him not at all. Many of them attend Washington's law schools. No detectives, most of them...
...night last week a yawning Capitol policeman heard a noise down a corridor, tiptoed nearer to investigate. The beam from his flashlight revealed Fulton Bond exploring the Senate restaurant's icebox. Dragged off to a station house where sheepish Capitol police attempted to keep the story quiet, Negro Bond mournfully gave his age as 22, his residence the U. S. Capitol...
...recognition. The American Bar Association patted it on the back. Finally, in 1930. Mr. Toll got financial aid from the Spelman Fund of New York. He moved the headquarters of his Association to Chicago, set it up in a two-room office near the University of Chicago. Today the Capitol of the U. S. is still in Washington, D. C., but so far as the states individually have any point of contact, it is Mr. Toll's office building in Chicago. There now are the headquarters of 17 organizations serving local governments (e. g., Civil Service Assembly, Public Administration...