Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as the U.S. Capitol vibrated with the bustle of its biennial rite, the convening of a new Congress, lawmakers were engaged in two kinds of positioning. On the surface, Democrats were taking control from Republicans with hearty promises of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy, and arranging themselves according to time-honored courtesies and the unwritten rules of seniority. Beneath the surface, the political footwork was livelier, with every step taken in anticipation of the 1956 campaign...
Ribicoff to a stately inauguration at the Capitol in Hartford, climaxed by a ball (3,000 paying guests at $25 a couple) with a grand march and a midnight sup per. Thus will Abe Ribicoff realize the American dream that, related in an emotional TV campaign speech ("That any boy could aspire to any position . . . and reach any heights"), helped to beat Republican John Lodge...
While Hurricane Hazel buffeted Washington one day last fall, a man appeared on the roof of the U.S. Capitol, and struggled to the flagpole over the west entrance. Working in the wind and rain, he ran down the American flag, took a brand-new one from a box and ran it up the staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private...
Congressmen have sent worn and tattered Capitol flags to friends for decades. But the practice of running flags up the staff for a moment and then lowering them on a mass-production basis was an innovation of the late 1930s, its author a Congressman impatient at waiting for one of the regular flags to wear out. After World War II, a few newspaper feature stories spread the word, and the souvenir flag market has now gone wild. More than 1,000 flags have been dispatched to congressional constituents in 1954, compared with...
...obliging Congressmen pay $6.50 (the price at the congressional stationery store). A new flag of the same make that has never flown over the nation's Capitol costs $13.70 retail...