Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Taft finally argued his colleagues around to the wisdom of having a bigger & better home more befitting the court's dignity and importance. In 1926 Congress passed the necessary legislation, authorizing an appropriation of $9,700,000. Chief Justice Taft selected a seven-acre site across the Capitol Plaza and beside the Library of Congress. Condemned and demolished was an old red brick building in which Congress sat after the Capitol's burning, Confederate prisoners were housed during the Civil War and, later, the National Woman's Party made its headquarters...
...caused by the resignation under-fire last month of James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Hawk-beaked, tight-mouthed John Francis Curry, the Tammany boss whose leadership had cracked and broken earlier in the week at the state convention in Albany (see col. I), had hastily summoned a conference at the Plaza Hotel. In attendance were, among others, cherubic old John McCooey, the Brooklyn boss; hulking John Theofel, the Queens boss; George Washington Olvany...
...head of the second biggest savings bank in the U. S. summoned reporters to the White & Gold room in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel one evening last week. He was Walter Harper Bennett, president of Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. His news was that the much-discussed committee of citizens to study railroad problems (TIME, Sept. 19) was at last complete. Head of the committee is Citizen Calvin Coolidge, from the directorate of New York Life. Said Mr. Bennett to reporters: "The country as a whole has a great deal of confidence in Mr. Coolidge. ... I believe him to be a level...
...that his headache was worse and he pre ferred to stay home. For several days the strongest evidence of suicide-motive was his personal physician's statement that the autopsy showed Paul Bern had suffered "a physical handi cap that would have prevented a happy marriage." At the Plaza Hotel in San Francisco last week there was a guest named Dorothy Millette. She had registered there early last May. Before that she had lived for 15 years at Manhattan's literary Hotel Algonquin where she was known as Mrs. Paul Bern. She had received $250 a month from...
...fatly resembles. "Just the time for a coup d'état," he chuckled to himself as he sped south from Madrid one torrid night. Next day Sevillanos on their way to lunch heard the clatter of hoofs, the tramp of feet, much blowing of bugles in the broad Plaza de Espana. There they found General Sanjurjo on horseback before the city hall. Behind him was a column of Civil Guards, infantry and medical corps. From his pocket the general withdrew a piece of paper, unfolded it, read: "I, Jose Sanjurjo, general in the Spanish Army, constitute myself captain-general...