Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conference. "It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good." The U.S. takes the position, he said, that "the Communist regime is disqualified by its consistent record of opposition to the principles of the United Nations." On Capitol Hill the Senate Foreign Relations Committee added an amendment to the foreign aid bill: "Congress hereby reiterates its opposition to the seating in the United Nations of the Communist China regime as the representative of China...
...record of accomplishments, particularly its legislative program. At times, after he made that statement, his legislative program seemed to be falling more often than it was standing. But last week, with considerable justification, the President found a handy word to describe the prospects for his proposals on Capitol Hill. His word: rosy...
There is a good reason for the burst of speed on Capitol Hill: this is an election year, and the politicians are anxious to get home. Majority Leader Bill Knowland has set July 31 as the target date for adjournment, and after last week's accomplishments, the prospects of hitting it look bright...
Into Tin Pan Alley's Broadway capitol, the Brill Building, there passes each day a hustling parade of tunesmiths and music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court...
Slumping Production. In the Capitol corridors, lobbyists for the watchmakers also pressured Congressmen to urge the President to uphold the Tariff Commission. Two years ago, the Tariff Commission had recommended a similar increase, but President Truman turned it down on the ground that the U.S. watch industry was in no real danger from Swiss competition. But now domestic jewel-watch production is off (an estimated 1,600,000 units this year, or half 1951 production), and employment has slumped from 12,000 in 1945 to some 8,000. Says Hamilton's President Arthur Sinkler: "The decline in domestic watch...