Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capitol Democratic Senators were secretly circulating a round-robin to the President protesting their failure to land jobs for friends. Particularly under fire for failing to appoint deserving Democrats were Secretary of the Interior Ickes, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Labor Perkins. Nevada's Pittman, Foreign Relations Committee chairman and president protem of the Senate, was credited with a letter to the President which declared: "It is a strange thing that if a Democrat recommends an appointee, it is political coercion. If a Republican recommends one, it is entirely unselfish. If a Democrat is named ... it involves political...
...once voted for Democrat Champ Clark for Speaker in the House, yet he almost wept on Pennsylvania's William Scott Vare when the Senate booted out that squat Republican, Now hardly a day passes without a barrage of dead cats for General Johnson from the Schall office on Capitol Hill. The Senator's outpourings have annoyed and embarrassed his Republican colleagues whose silent strategy is to give NRA all the rope it needs to hang itself. They explain Mr. Schall's blatant behavior on the ground that he fears that Minnesota's Farmer-Labor Governor Olson...
...boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake Bay, grounded in Pocomoke Sound, was "lost" for 24 hours...
...barometer dropped to 28.94 in. as the storm centre passed nearby. Federal employes were let out early to scamper home to safety ahead of the storm. Six inches of rain fell in 24 hours. All street lights were out of commission. Venerable trees were blasted down around the Capitol and the White House. The Potomac River climbed over the Speedway...
...ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic from Dover to Salisbury when three bridges were swept away...