Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government more quickly responsive to the popular will as registered at the polls. Vice President John Nance Garner gaveled to order a Senate which contained not one lame duck. Nebraska's old weary-faced Senator George William Norris, whose 20th Amendment outlawed defeated Congress men from the Capitol, looked and saw what was indeed a lame-duckless session. He shook his head sadly and murmured: "It looks like a picked chicken...
...President drove up to the Capitol to deliver his message on the State of the Union, the hearts of his Secret Service men missed a beat. A man in the crowd close to the car gave an ominous shout. Without waiting to hear what it was they seized and pinioned him, marched him away. All he had shouted was "We want the Bonus!" Police later established that his name was John Alferi, that he was a 47-year-old war veteran from Los Angeles, that he had a pass to the Senate gallery signed by Huey Long. Released, he returned...
...fine frosty morning last week President Roosevelt drove up to the Capitol, entered the House of Representatives' wing, mounted the Speaker's platform...
...election of Tennessee's gawky, bush-browed Joseph Wellington Byrns to the Speakership by pledging the solid vote of Pennsylvania's 23 Democratic Representatives to his candidacy. Last week Senator Guffey again showed what a power he was in the chamber at the other end of the Capitol from the one in which he officially functions. At the Democratic caucus to pick a leader to succeed Speaker Byrns, eight candidates were in the field. But when Boss Guffey threw his 23 Pennsylvania votes to Alabama's Bankhead, it was all over on the second ballot...
...Capitol guards, engaged in clearing the corridors outside the hall of the House of Representatives for President Roosevelt, stopped a hay-seedy-looking individual who, questioned closely, fumbled through his pockets for credentials, proved he was Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace...