Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duty. Two hours later he was back to report that he could not find Mr. MacCracken. He was ordered to keep on trying. Meanwhile the Senate called in the three airway officials who had been kept cooling their heals in a side room under guard of a paunchy Capitol policeman. All that day and all the next Mr. Jurney searched in vain, though Mr. MacCracken's whereabouts were anything but a secret. For several hours he was seated in the office of the clerk of the District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look...
...sorry," said Mr. Jurney, explaining that he could not make the arrest because he had left the warrant in his office safe at the Capitol. Besides the warrant called for delivering Mr. MacCracken "forthwith" before the bar of the Senate and that was now impossible since the Senate was not in session. Mr. Mac-Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand...
...Wisconsin Bankshares Corp., he retired to public life. For his good works in the Catholic Church he was knighted and awarded the Cross of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XI. He was confidential adviser to Governor Schmedeman when the Governor was Madison's mayor, followed him into the capitol last year without salary, is now chairman of the State Executive Council, a mixed advisory body of legislators and citizens. A 200-lb. bachelor with curly white hair and a reputation for high power at the council table, he lives in one of Madison's show places with four...
...from England to combat sparrows. One Civil Works relief project during the past two months was to oust great crowds of starlings from downtown Washington. At night CWA men climbed trees, scaled roofs, went after the birds. Result was that the starlings fled for sanctuary to the Capitol. Flocks of them darkened the dome, settled on window ledges, twittered, committed nuisances until Congressmen could no longer bear them. David Lynn, Capitol architect, was assigned to drive them off. He rigged a series of automobile horns around the building, blew them all periodically by pressing a button. When he pressed...
...thing to bring the Navy up to scratch but another to keep it there. Therefore Admiral Standley last week paid a second visit to the Capitol to advocate the Vinson bill before the Naval Affairs Committee. That measure calls for 102 new ships (95 destroyers and submarines) at a cost of at least $380,000,000 to replace present ships as they pass the useful age limit. Promptly the committee approved the Vinson bill, sent it to the House for passage this week...