Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Ecklund, 50, and Harry Stumm, 48, paymasters, were entering the door of the almost completed new House Office Building at the southern edge of the Capitol Plaza in Washington last week. In Paymaster Stumm's pocket was a $2,000 payroll for the painters on the construction job. Overhead, through the bare twigs of trees, bronze Freedom stood guard on the great white dome of national Authority. Across the street rose the old House Office building, usually well policed. But neither Freedom nor police prevented what happened to Paymaster Ecklund and Paymaster Stumm...
Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, will be the principal speaker at Governor Ely's interstate conference on labor laws at the Copley-Plaza today and tomorrow. Frankfurter will speak on the possibility of united action by States to achieve greater uniformity in labor legislation...
Outside Congress: He lives at No. 857 Green Street in San Francisco, swims regularly at the Olympic Club. His Washington home on Maryland Ave. S. E., half a block from the Capitol plaza is an old renovated brick house filled with French period furniture. There he lives with his wife, the former Minnie McNeal who, aged 17, married him, aged 20, in 1886. Their two sons practice law in San Francisco. Worried about his waist line, he works daily in the Senate gymnasium. Joe, his Chinese cook, he has had for over 20 years. He gets about in a Locomobile...
...easier to keep a bond from a dog than it is to take it from him once he has it," stated President Lowell speaking before 600 members of the Foreign Policy Association after a luncheon in the Copley Plaza Hotel on Saturday. He expressed his disapproval of the stand of the United States under the Hoover-Stimson doctrine of non-recognition of the gains of territorial aggression, declaring that instead of preventing war it will tend to lead the world into war. "The way to stop war," he continued, "is to settle its causes before they develop. The Hoover-Stimson...
...Hudson, Bemis Professor of International Law, will preside over the luncheon which begins at 1 o'clock at the Copley Plaza. After the talk Hudson will lead an open discussion on the subject...