Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, getting the green light from a President who sometimes distresses them by recommending gentle treatment of Democrats, Capitol Hill Republicans happily turned on Paul Butler with a collective snarl. Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater rose on the Senate floor to call Butler's statement "another sample of person-smear tactics which have now become typical of Butler's idea of political warfare . . . Our distinguished President and his wife . . . are in sound, healthy and vigorous condition-in vivid contrast to the condition of the man who ran for a fourth term and withheld information...
...Also the Piano. Democrats on Capitol Hill were hardly enthusiastic in their defense of the national chairman. The tone was set by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, who said that if Butler spoke an untruth about the health of the First Lady, "I would be the first to feel that he made a mistake." However, said Texas' Johnson, "it seems passing strange to me . . . that my delightful friends on the other side of the aisle should be so disturbed in this year 1955. In previous Administrations they talked about the President's health, the President's wife...
Across the State Capitol rotunda, in the house of representatives, Speaker George Diener, a Craig man, was ready with some tricks of his own. He was holding several passed bills that would not become law unless he signed them before the assembly adjourned. If Handley adjourned the senate at midnight, before the budget battle was settled, the Diener-held bills (including a politically potent bonus for Korean war veterans) would be void...
...civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill, two of the Hill's key prominences went to her. Backstage at the National Theater, after one of her romps through a week's run of the bawdy drawing-room comedy Dear Charles, Tallulah, drowning out the wee, piping yips of her Maltese terrier, thundered "Dahling...
...fact, an attitude-a kind of passion to reproduce music exactly as it sounded in its natural setting, e.g., a symphony orchestra in a full concert hall, a string quartet in an intimate room. Record companies tag their output with such slogans as "Full Dimensional Sound" (Capitol), "New Orthophonic" (Victor), "Ultra High Fidelity" (Vox). Says one cynical executive: "High fidelity is the chlorophyll of the record business...