Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory." Last week, as the 85th Congress took up President Eisenhower's resolution authorizing the use of force to keep the Communists out of the Middle East, the U.S. was confronted by an urgent world condition that was increasingly apparent the greater the distance from Capitol Hill...
...bedroom, $175-a-month Berkshire Hotel apartment, Knowland is up six mornings a week by 7 o'clock, reads the Washington Post and Times Herald and the New York Times in his official limousine (a perquisite of his position as minority leader) on his way to the Capitol. The Senate restaurant normally opens at 8:15, but one waiter comes regularly at 8 to serve Knowland his orange juice, eggs, toast and coffee. It is always a working breakfast, once a week with White House Legislative Aide Jerry Persons, other mornings with Cabinet officers or sleepy-eyed Senators. Then...
...marbled corridors of the Capitol, a growing, growling inauguration-day crowd waited too, under the steely eyes of state troopers and city police spotted through the building to prevent riot. Harried election supervisors filled out certificates of election for both candidates, and waited. And in their seventh-floor chambers of the courthouse, four justices of the Supreme Court mulled over the problem thrown to them three days before the inauguration for an eleventh-hour decision...
Obviously hopeful of landing a future Cabinet job or at least of becoming his state's senior Senator, Oregon's junior Democratic Senator Richard L. Neuberger drew guffaws on Capitol Hill by solemnly proclaiming the formation of the National Friends of Wayne Morse, Oregon's senior Democratic Senator already chasing his party's 1960 presidential nomination. Chuckled one Washington wag: "Dick should have called it the National Friends of Richard Neuberger...
With the trowel used by George Washington in laying the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol Building in 1793, Dwight Eisenhower last week spread the mortar for the cornerstone of the State Department's new $57.4 million, eight-story-tall, two-block-square headquarters in Washington. For the 8,000-odd staffers now crammed into State's Foggy Bottom headquarters or farmed out among 28 other office buildings, the prospect of at last being in one building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings...