Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found a good one. As Bill Boyle likes to remember it, Senator Harry Truman called him from the Capitol and asked him to be an investigator for Truman's war contracts investigating committee. As others recall it, Boyle was desperate, and Harry Truman put him on as a sort of personal aide, at $350 a month. In 1942, Truman's old Missouri crony and secretary, Harry Vaughan, went off to the Army, and the Senator gave Vaughan's job to Boyle. Bill became a specialist on the boss's political problems, and in 1944 moved over...
...Capitol Hill there began to be murmurings about Boyle's double-barreled activity. Shortly thereafter, Bill Boyle accepted a $30,000-a-year salary as full-time executive director of the National Committee. Three months later the White House eased Rhode Island's Senator Howard McGrath out of the chairmanship (kicking him upstairs to the Attorney General's office), and promoted Bill Boyle to McGrath's job, which pays $35,000 a year...
Code of Ethics. Flanked by two other lawyers, Bill Boyle strode confidently into the small third-floor Capitol committee room of the Senate Investigations subcommittee. For 20 minutes the photographers and newsreel cameramen hovered around him. He smiled a relaxed smile for the lenses, his broad Irish face showing few signs of his 49 years, except for an accordion-like rippling of chins. North Carolina's pale old Senator Clyde Hoey, Democratic chairman of the subcommittee, arrived promptly at hearing time, smiling and looking more than ever like Arthur Train's unforgettable Mr. Tutt in his dark frock...
Over the last eleven years. Defense's Bob Lovett has held down three important top policy-making jobs, just a short taxi ride across Washington from Capitol Hill. But Lovett, a tall, slender man with the poise and features of a balding Caesar, has nimbly sidestepped the publicity that might have made his name known even to Bill Langer. In a time of crisis, he is well content to work in the shadow of greater names...
...statesman's chore done, it became obvious that Tom Dewey was also on urgent political business. He rushed up to Capitol Hill, got a quick lunch and a round of political handshakes, then headed for the office of Pennsylvania's Senator James Duff. In the 1948 Republican Convention, Jim Duff had declared bitterly that he was "for anybody but Dewey." But now the two had one thing in common: they both liked...