Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chided them hot-temperedly on the Senate's delay, reiterated his demand for a two-year extension of NRA. But he also declared, surprisingly, that he "could not" veto a ten month extension as proposed by Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark. The Senators marched back to the Capitol, where next day five of them joined other Finance Committee members in approving by 16-to-4 a redraft of the Clark resolution. In effect it offered an emasculated Blue Eagle less than ten months to flutter to its grave. The resolution would extend NRA to April 1, 1936, grant...
...less than five bills pending in Congress to use the money to buy law books for the Library of Congress, to buy portraits of former Supreme Court Justices, etc. etc., the President thought it time to stop Congress from quarreling over the legacy. He sent a message to the Capitol, urged the money be put into a trust fund, not to be spent until after "ample deliberation...
Only Lady Luck and the President's initiative can save the Blue Eagle. The Speaker of the House at Washington and Chairman Daughton have said Roosevelt's wishes will be controlling should he want to induce the House to refuse the Clark resolution. Nevertheless, wise on-lookers at the Capitol believe the Senate will deadlock with the House on any legislation designed to save the NRA. And in all probability the deadlock will extend past June 16, when the Dlue Eagle is officially due to shed its feathers...
Because the State of Pennsylvania refused to pay on time for a series of heroic statues Barnard had designed for the Harrisburg Capitol, he took a bicycle trip through southern France, assembled an extraordinary collection of medieval sculpture. Selling most of it to dealers, he made enough to keep his 15 workmen employed in his huge studio near Paris. With what he did not sell, he started the finest private collection of Gothic and Romanesque sculpture in the U. S. This he placed in a private museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John...
...historic, horsy Leesburg, one-time (1814) unofficial capitol of the U. S., all credit for its part in current crime news...