Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian A. Herter would recognize Artist Baker's excellent cover drawing of her great governor-husband; Solomon Willard would recognize, down to the last granite alock, the Bunker Hill Monument he designed ; and Mr. Bulfinch would praise Bakr's work on our Stafe Capitol; but no son of the Commonwealth could ever accept that dried-up thing Baker conjured up as a codfish! Ernest Hamlin Baker should change his fish market . . . His caudal fin, dorsal fins, maxillary, eye, missing barbel, etc., have turned our Sacred Cod into a hunk of gurry...
...Capitol Rotunda. On the day of the funeral, a uniformed attendant wheeled Martha Taft into the rotunda of the Capitol, where for a day her husband's body, in a closed casket, had lain in state, visited by thousands of people.* There the dignitaries gathered: President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, members of Congress, the Cabinet and the Supreme Court, Taft's old friend, Douglas MacArthur. The muffled brass of the U.S. Marine Band echoed through the corridors, and Senator John Bricker spoke the eulogy. Taft, who had always gone armed with a sense of humor, would have appreciated...
...Only twelve others have lain in state in the Capitol rotunda: Abraham Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, John A. Logan, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Admiral George Dewey, the Unknown Soldier of World War I, Warren G. Harding, General John J. Pershing, and Robert Taft's father...
...problem was getting the Republicans on Capitol Hill turned around to leadership after 20 years in the minority. In some fields, including much of Joe McCarthy's headline grabbing, Republicans were still acting like an opposition party. The congressional investigations of this session were examples of oppositionism-in-power. Investigators threw further light on the Communist conspiracy and on the Korean ammunition shortage, but they laid no basis for legislation, gave few constructive hints on policy...
With that the debt fight was lost and the Administration suffered its major defeat on Capitol Hill of the first session...