Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chorus of frenzied cries wailed up from Capitol Hill as a House subcommittee continued to poke at the Internal Revenue Bureau scandals. Almost all the voices were raised in answer to the shrill tones of a sharp-eyed Chicago lawyer named Abraham Teitelbaum. Attorney Teitelbaum, who described his late client Al Capone as "one of the most honorable men I ever knew," is in tax trouble with the Government-a matter of at least $130,000 in unpaid income taxes. It looked as if this trouble would be settled without much difficulty, he testified last week, until two men named...
...which was the main local outlet for the paper, took it off the stands over two and a half years ago. The 25 sales made per week did not make up for the consistent criticism the proprietor received from patrons. Soon after it disappear from Felix's stand. The Capitol News Company, distributors of the paper the Boston area, stopped delivering Cambridge. "There just wasn't enough demand," said a Capitol spokesman...
Republicans on Capitol Hill note that there have been few firings until investigations lit the fuse. Said Nebraska's Representative Carl Curtis, commenting on Administration promises of a housecleaning: "I think they will clean up anything they know we can prove...
Wherry's words came so fast that he frequently lost control of them. A succession of "Wherryisms" made him the Sam Goldwyn of Capitol Hill. He once promised another Senator "opple amportunity" to make a speech, called Oregon's Junior Senator Wayne Morse "the distinguished Senator from Junior." Other Wherryisms: "Chief Joints of Staff," "bell door ringer...
...Head ("The Continental"; Capitol). "The Continental" is Renzo Cesana, intimate-patter man of TV (TIME, Nov. 5), who speaks these man-to-woman lines as if he were holding a glass of champagne in one hand and a swooning female in the other. Women will giggle, men guffaw...