Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, the reformed protectionist who has led the Administration's Capitol Hill campaign for the five-year bill, called the committee changes "unacceptable," vowed that the Administration would "fight to get the legislation that we think is to the benefit of this country." Due this week: a battle on the Senate floor to repair at least some of the Finance Committee's damage...
...time for the Senate vote that could add a 49th star to the U.S. flag. Interior Secretary Fred Seaton, getting word that diehard opposition, mostly Southern, had gasped its last, rushed from a steak dinner to Capitol Hill. Alaska's Governor Mike Stepovich excused himself to his dinner hosts, sped to the Capitol. The Senate roll was called, and the U.S. Senate last week voted 64 (31 Democrats, 33 Republicans) to 20 to admit Alaska to the Union. Barring only the foregone conclusions of a presidential signature and an Alaska referendum next month, the U.S. had its first...
Retreat to New York. Milton was no hidden persuader. He opened a bar in the west portico of the state capitol at Raleigh to sway the legislators. Many North Carolinians still insist that the chipped stone steps of the capitol were broken by the barrels of booze rolled up and down them in those days...
Desire Under the Elms (at the Capitol in Somerville). Burl Ives misses, but Sophia Loren and Tony Perkins preserve O'Neill's incest and infanticide faithfully...
Last week, when news of Jim McConaughy's death saddened Capitol Hill, Senator after Senator arose to pay him tribute as man and newsman. Said Acting Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "He was a great newspaperman, a good friend." And TIME's Editor-in-Chief Henry R. Luce spoke for us all in mourning Jim McConaughy: "He was dedicated to the service of his country and of truth...