Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. James Wolcott Wadsworth, 74, New York's Republican Senator (1915-27), who returned to the Capitol as an upstate Congressman (1933-51), in 1940 co-authored (with Nebraska's Democratic Senator Edward Burke) the first peacetime U.S. draft law; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. A colorless public speaker, he was widely respected by both political camps in Washington as an able, intelligent legislator, with a special interest in national defense. His uncompromising opposition to women's suffrage and Prohibition helped unseat him in the Senate, but as an expert on military affairs, he felt that...
...Good Old Harry." At that point, Harry Truman, who had seized the industry earlier only to have the Supreme Court rule that he had no power to do so, stepped into the picture again. He rode up to Capitol Hill, asked Congress for seizure power. An injunction under the Taft-Hartley law, said Truman, would be unfair to the workers. After they had already worked more than 150 days without a contract, it would force them to work 80 days more without a raise. In Pittsburgh, Steelworker Tom Zema glowed: "Good old Harry. He talks like...
Congress gave Truman less applause than any President in recent years has received for a speech on Capitol Hill. (Bob Taft laughed derisively during the address.) The Senate promptly turned down three seizure proposals, then requested the President to use the Taft-Hartley law. Truman in his speech had made it clear that he was against the law, and would use it only if Congress urged him to, i.e., if it freed him of political responsibility for invoking it in this election year. Phil Murray was violently against it too. Like Harry Truman, he didn't want...
Classics in Jazz (Capitol, 18 sides, LP). Well-picked samples of the wide variety of jazz styles of the past half-dozen years. The nine platters: Piano Stylists, Sax Stylists, Dixieland Stylists, Trumpet Stylists, The Modern Idiom, Small Combos, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Bobby Sherwood...
Rimsky-Korsakoff: Suite from Le Coq d'Or (French National Symphony Orchestra, Roger Désormière conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). A color-rich score, played with elegance and recorded with luxuriant sound. The suite is also available on Vanguard, played by the State Radio Orchestra of the U-S.S.R., Nicolai Golovanov conducting. The latter reading is less sophisticated, has less resonant sound, but the recording is up to the standard of most U.S. releases...