Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letters, cards, X-ed scraps of paper are stacked in every cranny, and more still pour in. Last week some 300 of her followers, who mostly are on Relief (as is she), arrived in Washington by truck and car, so fagged that they could hardly drag themselves up the Capitol steps to hear their friend from Mississippi...
Recalling your issue of March 13, under "Capitol Prayers," on p. 40, you hinted that Shera was a funny name, which I resent, for while Shera is not an ordinary name, it is unusal, and different. My greatgrandfather was named James Shera and I have a freind named Mrs. Montgomery, and I think they are both nice names. I am 11 yrs. old I am in junior high school, and I like to read TIME because I like it very much...
...were C. I. O., which called loudly for haste by the Congress, and the Workers Alliance (union of unemployed and reliefers), which announced a march to Washington of 100 delegates representing 800,000 Southern WPA workers for a protest meeting this week. WPAdministrator "Pink" Harrington went up to the Capitol to testify in detail about his needs, armed with State-by-State figures on the impending layoffs. These maneuvers worried many a Congressman. On others they had an opposite effect. Apostles of Economy were goaded into balkiness. The first skirmish of the Second Battle of Relief was promptly fought...
...poker, no man, not even the late convivial Nick Longworth, enjoyed such influence among members on both sides of the aisle in both Houses as this stubby, stubborn, pink & white billiken with the beak of an owl, eyebrows like cupid's-wings, tongue of a cowhand. He takes Capitol freshmen aside and instructs them philosophically. "Now, Scott," he said, for example, to Senator Lucas of Illinois, "first thing to do is to get other Senators' respect, if you have to fight 'em twice a day. After you get their respect you'll have their confidence. Then...
Much distressed, the Air Corps quietly went to work on Capitol Hill to get Negro training killed or unload it on the Civil Aeronautics Authority before the rearmament bill is finally enacted...