Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texans Three. One big reason for Robert Anderson's success as Treasury Secretary is that, in vivid contrast with his outspoken, impatient predecessor, he stays on good terms with the Democratic majority on Capitol Hill. In this he has an accident of geography going for him: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn are both Texans. Rayburn, an old and trusted friend, was the first man to hear about Texan Anderson's painful decision in 1952 to bolt the Democrats and vote for Eisenhower. Anderson keeps in close touch with the leaders, tells them...
...cure the recession by cutting taxes. Within the Administration, Vice President Richard Nixon and Labor Secretary James Mitchell argued that it would damage the Republicans in the 1958 elections, and beyond, if the Administration let the Democrats grab the credit for combatting the recession by cutting taxes. On Capitol Hill, Sam Rayburn responsibly held off the Democrats who wanted to cut taxes, but he wavered in the face of arguments that the party could not afford to let the Administration get the credit...
...lost one," brags South Korea's army chief of staff, 41-year-old Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, and with some reason. An incorruptible, tough-minded professional, Song fought throughout World War II with the Japanese army, during the Korean war commanded South Korea's crack Capitol Division, and won his nickname from admiring U.S. General James Van Fleet. But the offensive he launched last February has proved in many ways the most arduous of his career. His mission: to root out wholesale pilferage and embezzlement in the 650,000-man Korean army, which has reached...
...strength, more civil defense, more missiles. In his first Senate floor speech, in June 1953, he assailed Republican plans to trim airpower, charged that the Administration was apparently planning to use a "firmly balanced budget" as its weapon in case of Soviet air attack. Since then, he has remained Capitol Hill's most outspoken critic of Eisenhower defense policies, and most persistent warner that the U.S. was dangerously underestimating Soviet military and technological strength...
...Little Flower" La Guardia, is filled with warmth, schmalz and a lively choreography that amounts to expertly organized pandemonium. Directed by George Abbott, boasting a bouncy score (by Jerry Bock) and urbane lyrics (by Sheldon Harnick), Fiorello! moves from Manhattan's garment district to Washington's Capitol Hill to New York's City Hall at a breathless pace. Crowed the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The new champion!" ¶ A Loss of Roses has Shirley Booth as the listed star, but until the Booth part gets beefed up, the show belongs to Carol (Pajama Game) Haney. Latest of Playwright William...