Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the world watching them, half a thousand U.S. citizens took their seats last week on Capitol Hill. They were the puzzled, troubled and individualistic members of the 82nd Congress. In a hushed Senate chamber, Chaplain Frederick Brown Harris concluded: "May there ascend from every member . . . the solemn prayer: 'So help...
...will have to spend normally valuable and productive years learning the grisly profession of war, however, can only hope that the Capitol's occupants will forget party-lines and pork barrels for the time-being. Let the Congressmen instead concentrate on making perfect what for many will be the most important law of a lifetime and a foreshortened lifetime at that...
Written by U.S. Songwriters Alan Livingston and Billy May, who got their idea from Warner Brothers' nondescript cartoon canary, Tweetie Pie, the song was originally recorded for children. Last fall, Capitol's British distributors asked for permission to release the American record in their own standard popular series. BBC Disc Jockey Sam Costa heard it, liked it so well he played it for five programs in a row. When he dropped it from his sixth program, it had become such a hit with his audience that he "was snowed under with hundreds of letters" of complaint...
...Senate paid big, solid Charles Wilson its best and rarest compliment. Without even calling him up to Capitol Hill for a going-over, it unanimously confirmed his appointment as Director of Defense Mobilization...
...kind of days he was putting in. Last week he received scores of callers, many of them retiring lame-duck Congressmen. One evening, heavily guarded by Secret Service men, he rode up to Capitol Hill for a dinner honoring two key Democrats who had been defeated at the polls:Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Party Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "I have learned," Harry Truman told the assembled lame ducks, "that if you stick around in public life long enough, defeat is certain...