Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outright defense of the State Department against the incursions of the Congress changed the atmosphere in the Foreign Service. From a feeling that the Secretary would at least attempt to protect their reputations, diplomats have come to realize that they are strictly on their own in any battles with Capitol Hill...
Between July 28, 1956, when the 84th Congress adjourned, and Jan. 3, 1957, when the 85th Congress convened, an avalanche of events had changed virtually every recognizable feature of the world landscape as seen from Capitol Hill. The U.S. returned Dwight Eisenhower to office in a devastating sweep-but for the first time in history a re-elected President would be confronted by a Congress controlled by the opposition. Crisis in the Middle East strained and stretched (but did not break) the historic alliance with Britain and France, even while crisis in Poland and Hungary demonstrated to the world anew...
...compliance with morality. But his newspaper bannered a point-blank refutation of Dulles' argument by an influential American diplomat: his breakfast host, Ambassador Clarence Douglas Dillon. Returning briefly to the U.S. last fortnight, Dillon had paused in Washington to record a radio interview for CBS's Capitol Cloakroom. One inevitable question: Why had the British and French stopped their Suez advance? Dillon's exact answer: "Well, I think what is generally felt to be the reason in the Middle East is probably-was probably the main reason, and that was fear of Soviet armed intervention...
...opening rounds were fired last week in what may become the great political battle of the second Eisenhower Administration. Principal opponents ranged against each other across a highly polished table in a Capitol hearing room: Texas' Democratic Representative Wright Patman, chairman of a joint congressional subcommittee on economic stabilization, and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin. Their general subject: inflation. The specific issue: tight money v. easy money in U.S. economic policy...
...that failed to win the two-thirds majority. Since 61% of the farmers actually voted for his plan, Ezra Benson feels that equity is on his side. He hopes that Congress will feel the same, but before he finds out for sure, Washington can look forward to another blazing Capitol Hill go-around between the Bensonites and the diehard defenders of the oldtime system of high-price supports...