Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill, the President's statement got quick confirmation. The first to react was California's Senator William Knowland, who rose and asked a sharp question: "Are the hundreds of American prisoners killed in cold blood with their hands tied behind their backs to become the forgotten men, while the bloodstained hands of the Communist murderer are clasped in fraternal greeting by our allies in the United Nations Building in New York?" Then he took his position: "On the day that Communist China is voted into membership into the United Nations, I shall resign my majority leadership...
...Senate Agriculture Committee actions, the Eisenhower Administration clearly lost the first round of the farm-program fight. The second round, on the floor of both houses, is likely to be close. If the Administration loses that one, President Eisenhower will still have a Sunday punch. The prevailing opinion on Capitol Hill last week was that the President would veto a rigid-price-support bill. If Congress did not override the veto, previously enacted flexible price supports (from 75% of parity when crops are plentiful to 90% when they are not) would go into effect...
...Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth, Wilbur Evans; Capitol LP). Mostly ordinary show tunes by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). Crooner Sinatra sings in a strong, wide range about the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, a wishing-well attraction for the tourist. Result: plenty of coins in the jukeboxes...
...Montgomery, Ala., the first Confederate capita], he was invited to join the Southern Congress in secret session. But on his way to the Capitol, Russell had driven past a slave auction, and he was so upset that he refused point-blank to sit with "a Congress of Slave States." One day beside the Mississippi River, an "an-thropoproprietor" insisted upon conducting him around an evil-smelling set of slave pens, beneath their canopy of flies...