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...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general." ...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throng set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 9/20/1951 | See Source »

...South Station area was converted into a sea of humanity...The crowd screamed: "The general. The general."...When he emerged from the rotunda into the street the throngs set a chant which was to echo all the way to Quincy and back again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The General Captures the Hub | 8/2/1951 | See Source »

...Salem, Ore., the Portland Symphony lobbied with music instead of words. The whole orchestra packed up, drove 52 miles to play in the capitol rotunda. Object: permission to have a symphony subsidy plan on the Portland ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Up to Congress | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...Three Cows. A huge crystal chandelier glittered above the pearl-grey top hats of diplomats, the snow-white Gandhi caps of Congressmen, and the flaming turbans and fezzes of princes in the marble rotunda. On the great throne where viceroys once sat, perched birdlike Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, retiring Governor General of the Dominion. Beside him on a smaller throne was the President-elect, in black achkan (coat) and tight white churidar (trousers). Prasad's timid wife Rajbanshi sat near by, looking bewildered and frightened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Republic Day | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: For an Old Debt | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

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