Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program that you and I support," said he, "is . . . designed to protect our freedoms, to foster a growing, prosperous peacetime economy, and to fulfill the Government's obligations in helping solve the human problems of our citizenry." Despite "highly publicized distractions," the program has made considerable progress on Capitol Hill. Congress has moved appropriations bills faster than usual, has supported Administration moves to cut expenditures, has enacted a road-building program, has cut excise taxes, authorized the St. Lawrence Seaway, and approved a mutual-security treaty with the Republic of Korea...
...last week, the Geneva Conference was pretty generally a story played down and tucked away on inside pages. June 1954 might still prove to be a catastrophic month for the free world, but because it involved neither spectacular deed nor memorable word, it could not compete with television on Capitol Hill or the lure of the next motel...
Born. To Alvin Morell Bentley, 35, U.S. Representative from Michigan, worst-hit of five Congressmen wounded by Puerto Rican fanatics in the Capitol (TIME, March 8), now fully recovered; and his second wife, Arvella Ann Duescher Bentley, 30: their first child, a son; in Washington. Name: Clark Henry. Weight...
...immensely important factor which has been all too often ignored in recent years seems at last to have come into its own on Capitol Hill," pontificated the Times. "American opinion, in spite of the cold war, in spite of its profound antiCommunism, is still firmly pacific, and, far from straining at the leash, will fight only when all reasonable chances of negotiation have failed. Peace is still, as in Jefferson's day, the American people's passion . . . By rejecting premature commitments in Indo-China, public opinion has overtaken the party cries...
Observers believed the measure might have passed under more normal conditions. Friday, Senate attendance was at its usual weekend low, with comparatively few Republicans present in the Capitol Building...