Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fifteen times during the week, the Mundt Committee or various combinations of its seven members met in various offices and corners of the Capitol. Purpose: to seek agreement on what to report about the McCarthy-Army fracas. Early in the week, newsmen were "reliably informed" that the Mundt Committee had achieved what had seemed impossible: within a few days it would issue a nearly unanimous report knuckle-rapping all four principals, McCarthy, Cohn, Stevens...
...help keep the legislative gears well oiled, Charlie Halleck uses "the Clinic," a secluded Capitol office comparable to Democratic Leader (and former Speaker) Sam Rayburn's "Board of Education," where Mister Sam's friends can sip at a bourbon-and-branch-water. Teetotaler Martin rarely visits the Clinic, but there, at the end of a long day, Halleck quenches the thirst of his assistant whips and plans the next day's work...
...First Night. As Senators steeled themselves for the endurance test, cots were hauled out of Capitol storerooms and set up outside the Senate chamber. The filibusterers, led by Alabama Democrat Lister Hill, agreed to vote on the Anderson rider. It was voted down, 55 to 36. The talkers went right on talking. They refused to regard the vote as final. Cried Hill: "The lobbyists of the power trust have been swarming the corridors for days...
...notice of his determination to harass the filibusterers. They rejoined by demanding a quorum call at 12:50, another at 3:46. The quorum calls gave the orators a respite while the sergeant-at-arms routed Senators out of their beds at home or off their cots in the Capitol...
...last spring from Washington's Banneker Junior High School. He will begin his new duties Oct. 4 when the court convenes for its fall term. But before then, he will break still another precedent: in September, along with pages who serve Senators and Representatives, he will enter the Capitol Page School, the first Negro ever admitted to its rolls...