Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unanswered Question. That evening, after Capitol Hill's most emotional debate of the year, 17 Democrats joined up with 26 Republicans to kill the Kennedy amendment by a single vote, 43 to 42. No Senator likes to go on record as voting for anything that could possibly be interpreted as helping Communism: that is why Dwight Eisenhower's firm and forthright approval was needed. Cried George Aiken, his eyes glistening with tears: "I am amazed by the statement that the President does not favor the proposal. Why did he let the Secretary of State favor it all this...
...Capitol Hill last week:
...pressing his crusade into Capitol Hill, the President breakfasted (cantaloupe, scrambled eggs and bacon, kippered herring, toast, coffee) with 15 Republican Congressmen. When the small talk amid the table clatter was over, Ike got his serious business off his chest. "These," said he, "are four simple musts." The four: Defense Department reorganization ("If war should come, and I pray that it doesn't, we would have to make improvements anyway"); a strong foreign aid bill to counter Soviet economic penetration; extension of reciprocal trade ("We all want to help domestic industries, but the only way the U.S. can survive...
...that the silver cloud had a grey lining. Much of the May job increase resulted from a surge of hirings for construction projects that had been delayed by early spring's foul weather; employment in manufacturing, the economy's soft spot, actually declined again in May. And Capitol Hill's bearish Joint Economic Committee predicted last week that the economy will not get back its full pre-recession robustness until mid-1959 at the earliest, and possibly not until late...
...House dining room of the Capitol one day last week, a youthful dark-haired man was having lunch when he heard the roll-call bell. He jammed the last quarter of his tuna sandwich into his mouth, gulped his coffee and hurried up to a gallery overhanging the Democratic side of the aisle. There, Michael Anthony Stepovich, 39, Alaska's first native-born Governor, watched intently as one by one the Congressmen below called out their votes. A few minutes later, the House passed the Alaska statehood bill. Stepovich glanced at his wife, sitting a few seats away...