Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end designed to get the Israelis out of Egypt and to give Israel more security by deploying the U.N. Emergency Force in some of the borderline areas (see FOREIGN NEWS), the U.N. approach had more chance of success; more than 50 nations supported it. On Capitol Hill President Eisenhower, stung by the attacks on Dulles, helped the Middle East doctrine through the Senate by saying in effect that he did not intend to fire Dulles as a price for senatorial cooperation (see below). Most notable good news of the week was that the U.S. and Saud, without...
Dropping by the White House one morning last week in his official role of chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges casually asked President Eisenhower if he would like to lunch with the committee some day on Capitol Hill. "Sure-today," said Ike briskly, leaving Styles Bridges to rummage up sirloin steaks, peach-and-cottage-cheese salad, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, Jell-O and coffee for 40 guests, purring that a Republican President had not lunched informally with Republican Senators on the Hill like this for more than 25 years. Obviously the President...
Both Dulles and he had made mistakes, Ike conceded, but he had had no reason to change his high opinion of the Secretary of State. And in any event, said he, sending his definition of command responsibility ringing round Capitol Hill and the world: "Secretary Dulles . . . has never taken any action which I have not in advance approved. I insist again that these matters are not taken spasmodically, impulsively. They are not policies developed off of top-of-the-head thinking. They take weeks and weeks, and when they come out, and are applied, they have my approval from...
With that, the House served notice that the Federal Reserve Board and its tight-money policy will probably find rough going in the 85th Congress, since Texan Patman is one of Capitol Hill's most outspoken critics of FRB's credit-pinching policies. In the Senate, the Administration can look for little help. A resolution by Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart, authorizing a non-partisan presidential commission, is sleeping quietly in the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, has little chance of being reported out before the end of February, if then...
...auditorium, with a purported capacity of 900 was filled to overflowing by students an hour before the proceedings actually began at 10:45 a.m. Capitol police were only able to reserve a few scattered seats for those in opposition to the bill...