Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Premier of the country that attacked Pearl Harbor only a little more than a decade ago was given the warmest of welcomes. He addressed the National Press Club, and went to the White House for a conference and a pleasant lunch with President Eisenhower. When Yoshida arrived on Capitol Hill, the Senate gave him a standing ovation. "A great friend of the U.S. in the cause of freedom," said Vice President Nixon in his speech of welcome...
Continuing Problem. From Capitol Hill came cries of outrage because U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles ("Chip") Bohlen attended a Moscow party celebrating the 37th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution after the B-29 was shot down. Again President Eisenhower took a conciliatory position: Bohlen had received only fragmentary news of the attack minutes before leaving for the party, and the President had no complaint against Bohlen's judgment or decision...
When they were finally sure that the voters had given them control of Congress, Democrats on Capitol Hill set out to force the Atomic Energy Commission to do their bidding. Their target was the Dixon-Yates power contract (TIME, Nov. 8), up for consideration before the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. They could not prevent the signing of the contract, but they did threaten to nullify it next year. Announced Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson: "We expect that . . . the Dixon-Yates thing can be given a quiet burial...
Inside the Question. Amid the furor on Capitol Hill, Dwight Eisenhower threw his weight more firmly than ever behind the Dixon-Yates plan for building a $107 million private power plant at West Memphis, Ark., and against the alternative of making a Government outlay of about that much for additional Tennessee Valley Authority steam-generating capacity. The question involved, the President pointed out, is broader than Dixon-Yates. It is: Should the Federal Government perpetually expand its role in the power industry? In a letter to Chairman "Stub" Cole of the Joint Committee, the President wrote: "If the Federal Government...
...placards as WHY DID ALGER HISS WANT TRIAL IN VERMONT? DO YOU KNOW SENATOR FLANDERS? This referred to the fact that Flanders' brother's wife's sister's divorced husband was a brother of Alger Hiss's wife. Then McCarthy followers milled around the Capitol and Senate Office Building most of the day. Once when McCarthy strode down a Capitol corridor, a grandmotherly woman darted out, touched him, and dashed away shrieking: "I touched...