Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relic of 1906. In the Department of Agriculture Brain Truster Rexford Guy Tugwell drafted such a stringent bill to revamp the old Federal Food & Drugs Act that manufacturers who stock the shelves of drug stores and groceries were thrown into a political panic. Hearings were held at the Capitol and self-righteous witnesses on both sides of the issue beat their breasts and shouted their convictions. But up to this week nothing really happened because Congress was too busy washing other dirty linen...
America's first college flying club, holder of the Loening Trophy for three years, will be represented at the first National Intercollegiate Flying Association conference, to be held in Washington April 2 and 3, when several undergraduates go to the Capitol to help in the national organization of the college flying units...
General MacArthur's first assets in his assault on Capitol Hill were charm and eloquence. He was able to call many members of the House Military Affairs Committee by their first names. Democrats were moved when the Army's No. 1 fighting man, relating his financial woes in Hoover times, declared: "I have humiliated myself seeking allotments to replace leaking, slum-like barracks housing our soldiers. I have almost licked the boots of some gentlemen to get funds for motorization and mechanization of the Army. . . . Unless we move quickly we'll be a beaten nation paying huge...
...Senator Clark declared that one day's mail swamped him with 6,000 protests. It was estimated that at least 500,000 citizens had urged their representatives to kill or modify the bill. The campaign's effect was apparent not only in the coatrooms of the Capitol but within the Administration. Chairman Sam Rayburn of the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee began to grumble about "propaganda" long before a single foe had testified against the measure. And last week in a special message to Congress, President Roosevelt lashed out at the organized opposition to a pet Roosevelt idea...
...Capitol reporters who knew his mettle and had heard him off the record had long marveled at the patience with which "Joe" Robinson had borne for two years the antics of the senior Senator from Louisiana. That patience now came abruptly to an end. Sticking out his pugnacious chin, Senator Robinson rose and bellowed his rage...