Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded, klieg-lighted hearing room on Capitol Hill last week, George Marshall filled in the details of U.S. plans for the defense of Europe-and in so doing all but ended the Great Debate. He disclosed to Congress and the world just how many U.S. troops would be committed to General Eisenhower's command...
...chance for congressional approval of a 1941 Canadian-American agreement for joint construction of the project looks better than usual. But it is far from assured. The anti-seaway lobby is still deeply entrenched on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Canadian patience is wearing thin. Said External Affairs Minister Lester ("Mike") Pearson in Ottawa last week: "The Americans say we are dragging our feet in world affairs. The biggest and longest dragging of feet I have known in my entire career is that of the Americans on the St. Lawrence seaway...
...friends these days. She has come a long way since she first arrived at Gunston Hall 17 years ago as the obscure daughter of a freshman Senator from Missouri. In those days Margaret's classmates sometimes twitted her about the "silent Senator" who never opened his mouth on Capitol Hill. Margaret herself, a competent scholar and an indifferent athlete, got scant attention from her contemporaries-until, one day at recess, they discovered that she could hit a higher note and hold it longer than anyone present...
Just about everyone on Capitol Hill last week was a short-order cook with a favorite recipe for frying the fat out of Harry Truman's $71.6 billion budget.† The trouble was that most of the recipes were the old hit-or-miss kind handed down from grandmother's kitchen-take a chunk of executive expenditures, mix with a heaping tablespoon of Social Security appropriations and simmer until done...
...fire. On Capitol Hill, angry Senators immediately announced that they would pursue their investigation of the RFC to the limit. This week Truman defiantly replied by renominating every one of the five RFC members. From Miami Beach Chairman Fulbright said that he left Washington not because he knew the President wanted to see him (he hadn't heard he did) but to fulfill a speaking engagement of several months' standing. "I do not wish to seem disrespectful to the President," said Fulbright, "but this statement of the President is not true...