Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double Trouble. Congressional critics were quick to catch the change of temper; most Democrats regarded both Secretaries as albatrosses around the President's neck. Last week, for the first time since the Korean war, Johnson and Acheson marched up Capitol Hill together to argue for the $4 billion foreign-arms program. They would get the money, all right. But for more than three hours, behind closed doors, committeemen blistered the Administration's failure to prepare for Korea. This time Acheson was not the only one to draw the committee's anger. Johnson, who had long done...
...statement. "Mr. Matthews' remarks about instituting a war for peace do not represent U.S. policy," it said. "The United States Government does not favor instituting a war of any kind." Matthews assured everybody that his speech represented "my own personal thinking, not that of the Administration." Up on Capitol Hill, West Virginia's 76-year-old John Kee, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggested that Administration officials not concerned with foreign policy should "keep their big mouths shut...
Voice of the Xtabay. By next nightfall, there was nothing too good for 28-year-old Yma (pronounced Eema) Sumac, the girl with the four-octave range (normal: two octaves). The critics were raving, movie producers were fighting over her, Capitol was rushing out an Yma Sumac album called Voice of the Xtabay, which it had recorded this spring...
...year-old Congressman Lanham leaped to his feet. "Damn son of a bitch!" he shouted. "Black son of a bitch!" With fists clenched, he raced around the committee table. Bespectacled, 59-year-old Attorney Patterson held to his witness seat. Lanham broke past two attendants before a pair of Capitol policemen managed to grab him. Subdued, Congressman Lanham returned to his place, abruptly adjourned the hearing...
This week, with the Liberal judges conspicuously absent, bulky, cold-eyed Laureano Gómez was sworn in before nine of the 16 members of the Supreme Court. In his inauguration speech, in the Salón Eliptico of the Capitol, Gómez praised U.S. action in Korea, and promised Colombians reconstruction of their country "on firm and austere bases." The ending of his speech was apt: "We men are only blades of grass in the hands of God. May His omnipotent hand save Colombia...