Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already Bill Knowland has plenty of company on Capitol Hill. Maryland's Republican Senator John M. Butler announced that he wants to make organized labor subject to existing antitrust laws. Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy, chairman of a labor subcommittee on remedial legislation, is at work directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down...
...better than kennel-fed dogs myself-you know, the one that will get out and hunt for his food rather than sit on his fanny and yell." This sent Democratic columnists, cartoonists, and labor leaders into paroxysms of protest. He addressd august congressional committeemen as "you men," dismissed a Capitol Hill boost in Air Force funds as "a phony." He called the Pentagon a "five-sided doghouse," upset the military convention of equating rank with intelligence by remarking: "I haven't noticed it made a man any smarter to put another star on his shoulder." Asked what was said...
What then was the clamorous Battle of the Budget all about? Were Capitol Hill's cuts mere political flimflam? Well, not exactly, said Anderson-Brundage. Congress and the Administration, between them, did in fact cut $2 billion out of the original budget. But the trimmings were more than offset by "a few upward revisions" partly due to inflation, partly due to ballooning programs that only Congress can change. Items: ¶ Bumper crops on the farms bumped up the cost of price supports by $739 million (total outlay for agriculture programs in the revised budget: $5 billion, or more than...
...bottle, wrote out a proclamation declaring themselves San Marino's legal government. "This is a great historic hour," said the new government, as the blue-and-white flag of the republic was hoisted aloft to flutter atop a rusty boiler on the roof of their new capitol...
...Senate and U.S. Cabinet members. With the Senator was his kid sister, "Miss Sally," 77. Staring out mistily over his birthday cake, Hayden made a ten-minute speech praising Arizona, virtually a filibuster for him and probably longer than any remarks by him for 45 years in the Capitol...