Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol Hill the foreign-aid climate continued fair and warm last week in the face of stormy world events. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, appearing before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee in an effort to get back some of the $7.1 million cut by the House from his $199.9 million State Department budget, discovered that there was little need to plead. No less a climatologist than Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson was almost shoving money towards him. "At the moment, our future rests upon the shoulders of the diplomatic corps," said Johnson, who last year led an unmerciful attack...
...gaudiest show in town, Tennesseans flocked last week into the auditorium of Nashville's massive War Memorial Building, where the state house of representatives was meeting while the capitol underwent repairs. The show: Tennessee's first impeachment proceeding in 42 years. The accused: Hamilton County's rowdy, Negro-baiting Judge Raulston ("Turkey Neck") Schoolfield...
Four hours after he reached Washington, Vice President Richard Nixon called to his Capitol office the newsmen who had traveled with him to Latin America and said: "The riots were a symptom. The real, basic question is why it happened...
...mother, a pop singer on Boston radio back in the mid-'20s thrust Gloria into big-band singing straight out of high school in 1941. Gloria did solid hitches with Horace Heidt and Kay Kyser, in 1953 made a Capitol record called Hey Bellboy (its only words), which sold nearly 1,000,000 copies. The movies have called on her to provide the voice of many a nonsinging star. She sang for Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, for Vera-Ellen in White Christmas...
...Anderson vendetta against Strauss could have far-reaching national consequences: if the Democrats control the Congress next year. Anderson will probably be chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and thus the man on Capitol Hill with whom Strauss must work most closely. Last week, summing up the possible results. New York Times Columnist Arthur Krock, an old friend to both Anderson and Strauss, described Strauss as Clint Anderson's Doctor Fell, concluded: "If Strauss retires voluntarily at the end of his current term, June 30, one of the principal reasons might well be his patriotic recognition that...