Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capitol grounds were redolent with the chicken being barbecued for Congressmen (among the munchers for the promotional stunt celebrating "Chicken Day" were Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Minority Leader Joe Martin). But Washington's air was not filled with the fragrance of flowers, or even of barbecued chicken. It was filled with the brickbats and broken glass that blew from the great budget fracas...
With his Treasury Secretary still an unchallenged hero to the budget cutters (see box, p. 24), even President Eisenhower seemed at times to be wandering. Fortnight ago he finally spoke up firmly in defense of the budget, but G.O.P. leaders on Capitol Hill were spreading the word that he was reconciled to a cut of well over $1 billion. The Administration's leadership had already confused one House Republican to the point of complaining: "The President lays out his program and lets it sit there. Sometimes, with one Cabinet member saying one thing and still another Cabinet member saying...
While Congress was talking its budget-cutting best, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield rode up to Capitol Hill last week like Wyatt Earp moving in on an edgy town board. Before an economy-tortured House Appropriations .Subcommittee Summerfield sat down and made his peremptory demand: a deficiency appropriation of $47 million to carry on until June 30, the end of the fiscal year. Bluntly he threatened to "drastically curtail" post office services unless the committee gave him what he wanted; he invited Congressmen to say "whatever services you would have the American people be denied...
...story goes on Capitol Hill, the Eisenhower budget has put the House in so fierce a cutting mood that if a Congressman offered a bill to cut the Ten Commandments to eight it would pass. Last week the House slashed away at the Labor and Health, Education and Welfare appropriations bill, and its mood had a scalpel's edge. In seven days of surgery on Labor and HEW, the Congressmen trimmed $69 million off the Appropriations Committee's $2.9 billion bill. Then, before the patient had regained consciousness, the surgeons stitched back nearly 80% of what they...
...Quarles as Air Force Secretary maintained deep interest and close touch with his first love-research-but never favored it unreasonably. Nor has he overfavored the Air Force itself.* Preparing a 1958 budget, Quarles helped trim preliminary requests totaling $23 billion down to $17.7 billion. Then he went up Capitol Hill to assure Congress calmly that, rather than ask for more, he felt $17.7 billion was sufficient to buy the kind of airpower the U.S. needs...