Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rarely there except to sleep (making his own bed afterward) or to fry an occasional egg. By 8 o'clock, he pops into his simple office in Tempo E and opens his door to all comers. After a day of interviews, mobilization meetings and sessions on Capitol Hill, he goes back to work until 1 or 2 a.m. most mornings-sometimes with aides, other times alone...
...Congress seem to feel the same way about him. Even when it is intent on boiling him 11 oil or chopping his authority out from under him, the Congress experiences a strange melting sensation around the icy fringes of its will power whenever Mil Di Salle paddles up to Capitol Hill to testify...
...Salem, Ore., the Portland Symphony lobbied with music instead of words. The whole orchestra packed up, drove 52 miles to play in the capitol rotunda. Object: permission to have a symphony subsidy plan on the Portland ballot...
...under the shadow of the Capitol all Americans should share the same privileges. There Congress would not be treading on the toes of any particular state...
Picking up steam, he whisked over to Capitol Hill to present Alben Barkley with a gavel turned from wood used in the 1817 reconstruction of the White House. It was Barkley's 38th anniversary in Congress, and both the President and the Veep were in fine fettle. Since he had never quite made the White House, quipped Barkley, "the President has brought a piece of the White House to me." The Senate roared, and Harry Truman cracked back: "I'm in pretty good health yet." Then the President shook hands all around, not overlooking such of his current...