Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bipartisan spirit in foreign policy by accepting an $11,000 job as a top consultant to Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Like the recent hiring of former Republican Senator John Cooper of Kentucky as a State Department advisor, Dulles' appointment was designed to quiet ruffled Republican tempers on Capitol Hill and restore some of the harmony which led to such bold undertakings as the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic Treaty. His appointment was an act of prudence on the Administration's part, and his acceptance an act of political courage...
...outside work on his private training track. His run last week earned him a new respect with the customers. Two days after Hill Prince's performance at Jamaica, the bookmakers had established him as a close Derby favorite (4-1) with Tulsa Oilman Tom Gray's Oil Capitol...
...rich mixture of gas and politics filled the corridors, the cloakrooms and the chambers on Capitol Hill last week. The Kerr bill was swirling through Congress...
...bill was the work of Freshman Senator Robert Kerr, a big burly man with a friendly eye and the handshake of a life-insurance salesman. A former governor of Oklahoma, he is also a millionaire oil and gas producer, and almost from the day he got to Capitol Hill, in 1949, he had been pushing this legislation...
...addition to his other qualifications, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission must abandon all his business connections, get along on a comparatively unrewarding $15,000 a year, and be ready at all times to suffer the slings and arrows of Capitol Hill. From a list of 30 candidates, President Truman last week extracted one willing to take the consequences...