Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take your places, take your places," urged Acting Subcommittee Chairman Karl Mundt, rapping sharply for order with a glass ashtray (Capitol police had removed the brown china ashtrays inscribed "If it's American, it's worth protecting'' which had been placed around the table by an enterprising high-tariff lobbyist). After delivering himself of a windy, 1,800-word speech on the problems and aims of the hearings, Mundt called for the first witness-and at that precise point. Joe McCarthy made his first move. Pulling his microphone close to him he objected strenuously...
...Immense Pride. Under Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith, summoned to Capitol Hill from Foggy Bottom, made a terse appearance, crunching out his answers as decisively as he stumped out his cigarettes. Roy Cohn, he said, had come to him to ask help about getting a direct commission for Schine, but not with the Central Intelligence Agency, because the CIA "was too juicy a subject for investigation . . ." Ray Jenkins asked if young Cohn had tried to high-pressure Smith into action-a suggestion that must have seemed incongruous to the hardrock old soldier. Snapped Smith: "Not me, sir!" His inquiries...
...piano). Columbia reels off a big jam session that includes a dizzying 63 choruses of The Huckle-Buck, played by Trumpeter Buck Clayton & Co. Pacific Jazz features the original inventions of the Russ Freeman Trio. Discovery has the bleep-bloop piano playing of Beryl Booker with her trio. Capitol includes Lennie Tristano and his fantastic a-rhythmical meanderings in a new clutch...
...Upstairs (Kay Starr; Capitol). Typical advice on where to go for help in the clutch-to God himself. Climbing the bestseller steps...
Next day copies of the Army's "bill of particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...