Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President to the people came echoing back last week. On his television tour of the White House, Harry Truman had digressed into a brief discussion of architecture (like history, one of his favorite subjects), and he let .the public in on a scary little secret: the dome of the Capitol, he said, is seven feet off center, and "that old sandstone building is going to crumble up one of these days with that cast-iron dome...
...Capitol Hill for a congressional once-over went smiling Judge James P. McGranery of Philadelphia, Attorney-General designate, the man picked by Harry Truman to do the promised house-cleaning chore that Newbold Morris and Howard McGrath fouled up so spectacularly last month. McGranery's performance before the Senate Judiciary Committee left his inquisitors, friend & foe alike, mostly unsmiling...
Russell works long hours, carefully studies every important piece of legislation, has a knowledge of Senate rules unequaled on Capitol Hill. Once, yielding to Russell in debate, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas said: "I yield, though my knees are knocking, to one of the subtlest men and one of the most able field generals who ever appeared on the floor of the Senate...
...Capitol Hill last week, a House committee member asked each of three top officials of the nation's anti-inflation program to define the word stabilize. Said Chief Stabilizer Roger Putnam: "To preserve the value of the dollar." Price Boss Ellis Arnall : "To keep in a stable position or relatively in equilibrium or balance." Wage Board Chairman Nathan Feinsinger, after a peek at the dictionary: "A substance added to an explosive to render-it less liable to spontaneous decomposition...
...Tallahassee, he marched into the state capitol to shake the hand of Governor Warren, who has been feuding with Kefauver ever since the Senate Crime Investigating Committee brought out some embarrassing facts about the political connections of gamblers in Florida. The governor just happened to be out. When Estes heard that a former Florida National Guard chief had refused to attend a Kefauver house rally, he was on the man's doorstep at 7 a.m. He was invited in, and talked over coffee for almost an hour. Said his startled host: "He almost convinced...