Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five Southern Democrats and four Republicans sat smiling at a lady one day last week in the cramped, dim-lit House Rules committee-room on the third floor of the Capitol. The nine smug gentlemen, key bloc of the conservative coalition now dominating the House, could afford to be gracious to hard-plugging Mary Norton, Labor committee chairlady, because they had just finished trampling roughshod over...
...Capitol of the United States stood last week as white, massive and immovable as ever under the hot July sun. But within it took place a series of political upheavals more momentous than any since the Hundred Days of 1933. Explosion after smoky explosion blew away Franklin Roosevelt's last vestige of control over both houses of Congress. When the week ended, the Democratic Party lay split asunder, with the larger half lying away from the President, coalesced with the Republicans, the smaller half crumbling toward him in frightened fragments...
...over control of the country's' money. But the end of that fight only cleared the field for a mightier one: over control of the country's conduct in case of war overseas. As 34 diehard-isolationists massed in Senator Johnson's lair under the Capitol rotunda to sign a manifesto, lines formed for the longest tussle of all between the 32nd President and the 76th Congress...
Beneath the Capitol's rotunda is a book-lined lair where, 21 years ago, California's Senator Hiram Warren Johnson, then a vigorous ex-Governor and ex-candidate on the Bull Moose ticket of 1912, put his name up on the door without a by-your-leave to anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest...
...Federal Theatre and crippled other white-collar projects, called for a three-man, bipartisan WPAdministration, limited WPA building projects to $50,000. As the Senate settled down to ponder this bill, Actress Tallulah Bankhead and other theatrical talent created a diversion in behalf of restoring FTP. Secretary Ickes climbed Capitol Hill to ask $500,000,000 outright, instead of a diverted $125,000,000, for PWA. But Franklin Roosevelt created the biggest diversion of all by asking Congress to inaugurate a $3,860,000,000, "self-liquidating" public works program on a revolving fund basis outside the Budget. This sweeping...