Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Special Assistant: Major General (ret.), Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 52, brother of Alabama's Democratic Governor Gordon Persons and former head of Staunton (Va.) Military Academy. A long time Army spokesman on Capitol Hill and Ike's public-relations adviser at NATO, he will be Ike's liaison man to Congress...
Senator Robert Taft, who is still Mr. Republican on Capitol Hill, already knows two things about the next session of Congress: i) he is bound to disagree with some of President Eisenhower's policies, and 2) the G.O.P. will best be served if he and Ike keep their disagreements to themselves. Last week Taft was discreetly campaigning for the job of Senate majority leader when Congress convenes on Jan. 3. His reason: the majority leader maintains hour-by-hour contact with the White House, is in the best position to thresh out policy arguments with the President before policies...
...bureaus can only finance such educational leaves on appropriation from Congress. Twice in the last three years, the educational leave project has fought its way up to the Capitol, only to die in committee. Congress, it seems, has yet to realize the long-term value of such an investment...
...famous historical frieze in the rotunda of the Capitol is concerned, American history begins with Columbus and ends with the discovery of gold in California in 1848. But for 64 years there has been an unfinished blank space waiting to be painted in. Last week, at the bidding of Congress, Muralist Allyn Cox of Manhattan was busy with a $15,000 commission to bring history up to date...
...Book (Johnny Standley; Capitol). Something about "grandma's lye soap," in which Comedian Standley wows a studio audience and makes it clap hands in unison...