Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly to hold Secretary of State Stimson's presence for more than a fortnight. Ambassador Gibson went back to Belgium, ceased, for reasons unknown, to be President Hoover's diplomatic handyman. Miss Mary Emma Woolley returned to Mount Holyoke College, Virginia's Senator Swanson to the Capitol, neither with new glory. That left Delegate Davis as the lone survivor to carry on the U. S. job of trying to get Europe to disarm. In the months following the general conference's adjournment in July he became a sort of roving ambassador, dipping into many a diplomatic...
What may be the last "lame duck" session of Congress in U. S. history opened a three-month sitting last week.* Under a bright December sun the Capitol gleamed whiter than usual after a bath by the local fire department. When Speaker Garner called the 72nd House to order to take up the nation's business, on its rolls were still 144 members whom the People had rejected as law-makers on Nov. 8. Lame ducks in the Senate numbered 14. Prime job of the session: enactment of eleven bills appropriating more than four billion dollars for next year...
Reds. Two years ago 500 Communists demonstrating before the Capitol stole the headlines from Congress on its opening day. Last December 1,600 Red hunger-marchers demanding relief were the centre of interest. This year Senators and Representatives managed to hold the spotlight only because Superintendent of Police Ernest W. Brown cooped up a tatterdemalion army of 3,000 Red demonstrators in the suburbs two miles from the Capitol...
...high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective-the Capitol's dome...
...novel. It is by this method that he rises to respectable heights in description of historic events and persons; the best example of this is the picture drawn of the huddled, broken figure of Wilson beside the hale and hearty Harding as they rode down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol on March 4, 1921. Mr. Anonymous has made the mistake of including in his book too much that is purely personal, too much that sounds like the "Locomotive God." He is not an Austrian princess, and there is little in his experiences with sex which makes the large dosage...