Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lobbyists and constituents, bravely cut $86,250,000 from the already trimmed-down Eisenhower budget. It was $171,675,000 less than last year's pork appropriation. Congressional thrift touched off speculation about the pending foreign aid bill. If Congress is niggardly with funds for the Missouri River, Capitol observers asked, what will happen to appropriations for the Rhone...
...Capitol Hill one morning last week, members of the Senate Armed Services Committee sat sedately along one side of a big conference table, ready to pass judgment on the men whom Dwight Eisenhower had nominated to replace the present Joint Chiefs of Staff. Across the table, nervously awaiting their ordeal by interrogation, sat the four beribboned nominees (see cut)-prospective Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Admiral Arthur Radford, the Navy's schoolmasterish-looking Admiral Robert Carney, the Air Force's handsome, white-maned General Nathan Twining and the Army's General Matthew Ridgway, stiffly erect in paratroop...
...Tossing Congress a defense budget slashing $5.2 billion from armed-forces appropriations for fiscal 1954, the biggest bone of contention on Capitol Hill (see above...
...Problem. On Capitol Hill, Wilson has never overcome the impression created by his garrulous stubbornness during the confirmation hearings. His testimony in support of the defense budget has done nothing to improve his congressional relations. Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, seeking a way to justify the Air Force cut to their constituents, were appalled by Wilson's failure to offer any coherent argument for his budget. "Charlie Wilson," said one Congressman last week, "will never make anything but a hell of a lousy politician...
...York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and Demons, sung by Bass-Baritone George London (Columbia); Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, played by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra under Manuel Rosenthal (Capitol); Howard Swanson's Short Symphony, Franz Litschauer conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard); music by Rossini, Cambini and Bonporti, played by the Virtuosi di Roma (Decca...