Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry the country!" exclaimed Vice Presidential nominee John Nance Garner last week as he swung his feet off his desk in the Capitol and started back to Uvalde, Tex. to vote. Speaker Garner had made only one radio speech during the campaign (TIME...
...public." Relief? The Democrats forced the Administration to act by bringing forth the Wagner bill. Economy? Congress cut $334,000,000 from the President's own estimates over the loud protests of his Cabinet. Budget? It is still unbalanced despite the President's "breathless rush to the Capitol to get publicity." Bonus? It was specifically voted down at the Democratic national convention. The Garner "loans-to-all" bill? President Hoover wanted to authorize R. F. C. loans to private industries and named an automobile corporation whose head contributed $25,000 to his campaign fund as a likely recipient...
Tear gas was used, four officers were injured, twelve marchers were locked up, several banners demanding "Freedom for the Scottsboro Boys" were torn down and confiscated when Washington police drove 100 demonstrators of the International Labor Defense off the Capitol Plaza one forenoon last week. Undisturbed by the tumult outside, inside the Capitol in the shadowy chambers of the Supreme Court nine old white men reviewed the case of seven young Negroes convicted at Scottsboro, Ala., spring before last, of raping two white girl hoboes in a box car. Political libertarians called the death sentences "legal lynching," but Alabama...
When President-elect Roosevelt moves into the White House March 4, a Democratic Congress will come into being at the Capitol. Thus as a result of the election both arms of government were placed solidly in control of one party, paving the way for positive legislative action in the next two years...
...NUDIST IN THE CAPITOL...