Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mills report blunted the politicking efforts by Senate Finance Committee Democrats-especially Oklahoma's Democratic Oilman-Senator Robert S. Kerr-to brand the tight-money policy as a national calamity. In questioning Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on Capitol Hill last week, Kerr nagged and niggled for three days without denting Humphrey's basic defense. The Secretary admitted that tight money had pained some borrowers and would-be borrowers. He also admitted that high interest rates had upped the cost of carrying the national debt. But he would not be swerved from his (and the Mills reports...
...billion. Half that total was made up of mere bookkeeping switches that Dwight Eisenhower was willing to accept, but he argued hard with congressional leaders to get back the other $1.2 billion that cut painfully into the Pentagon's 1958 spending plans. Last week, with economy fervor on Capitol Hill somewhat faded, the Senate undid most of the House's damage. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted out a $34.5 billion defense bill restoring $970 million -85%-of the real meat the House had chopped off. Prospect: passage by the full Senate this week, followed by a compromise measure...
...twist of Senate cloakroom politics, two far-apart issues-Negroes' civil rights in the South and federal power policies in the Northwest-got linked together on Capitol Hill last week, with surprising results...
With that, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Texas' Junior Senator Ralph Yarborough swung into action on Capitol Hill, asked Congress to help in curbing "uncontrolled" oil imports. Said Texan Yarborough: "The situation for our independent producers has become a one-way street leading to oblivion." Johnson announced that he had word that President Eisenhower himself would intervene in the case to curb oil imports "threatening national security...
...Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground for over forty years until he retired just after the war. During the war, the dome on the State Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey, but now it is gold again...