Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once hastily changed his vote when he found himself and New York's New Dealing Herbert Lehman the only Democrats voting in opposition to a bill. Despite these foibles, by the time he took over the Judiciary Committee in 1943, McCarran was recognized both at home and on Capitol Hill as a political titan. He even managed to exude power while sitting in the Senate restaurant eating milk-soaked graham crackers...
...nation's leader this is fundamentally an attack on him and notice that a Democratic Congress will carry on the process. This in itself is enough to paralyze the Democratic argument that voters who desire to help the President should put his opposition in control at the Capitol. The Democrats want primarily to advance their own political fortunes, and both common sense and the requirements of the two-party system are served thereby. If the opposition carries Congress, the goal of its entire effort, as of Stevenson's, will, of course, be the Presidency in 1956. This goal...
...making its military contribution to the defense of Europe, Berlin will remain a responsibility of the three western allies. The American ambassador in Bonn would have the same special responsibilities in Berlin as hitherto, and this would continue until Germany is reunified and Berlin once again becomes the capitol of a free and united Germany...
...Mumford is the fourth professionally trained librarian to get the profession's top job-and the scrambled heritage that goes with it. Established by Congress in 1800, the library could at first muster only 1,000 volumes, tucked away for congressional reference in a room of the old Capitol. Even this meager collection was virtually wiped out when the British put Washington to the torch during the War of 1812. Only ex-President Thomas Jefferson's offer of his 6,000 volumes in 1814 kept the idea of a national library from expiring; even so, successive Congresses were...
...Yard. Like Rome, of course, Athens was not built in a day. During its first years, S.U.I.'s entire faculty consisted of three professors. Its course ran only 16 weeks, and its tuition was set at the ludicrous figure of $4. Even after it inherited the state capitol building when the government moved to Des Moines, it barely managed to scrape along. In 1858 it closed its doors for two years because of lack of funds, and in 1862 it was still facing such financial problems as authorizing the janitor to "purchase a dog at a cost not exceeding...