Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leach sees developing on Capitol Hill "a belief that our present organization is outmoded." Senator Styles Bridges, (Rep. N.H.) however, is in strong opposition to the plan. Last summer he said in the senate about the single force plan, "In my opinion these efforts constitute a grave threat to our national safety and the survival of our form of government...
...California's Democratic Representative Harry Sheppard last week. "The patronage committee is charged with taking care of Democrats. Period." Sheppard was explaining the action, just completed, of the House Democratic Patronage Committee in firing a Negro employee of the House post office and a Negro member of the Capitol police force. Cause for dismissal: both had received their appointments through New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Negro who supported Republican Dwight Eisenhower for President because of his civil-rights record...
...face of the Eisenhower landslide in 1952, Mansfield unseated Republican Senator Zales Ecton and moved to the other end of the Capitol. On the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mansfield won bipartisan respect for his carefully thought out, independent views, e.g., foreign aid administered with a high degree of selectivity and a close eye on costs ("I do not agree with those who argue that U.S. leadership requires us to spend billions simply to prove that we are more generous than the Russians"). In 1954 Dwight Eisenhower named him a delegate to the Southeast Asia Conference that resulted in the SEATO...
...Pierson Dixon. though quietly effective behind the scenes, is a careworn Leslie Howard in appearance. Most impressive of the big-power delegates is broad-shouldered, faultlessly tailored Henry Cabot Lodge. Forceful but no longer overbearing, Lodge has grown on the job. The gallery-conscious dramatics and freewheeling Capitol Hill political habits which he brought with him when he first came to the U.N. have largely disappeared, and ever since the beginning of the Mideast crisis he has shown himself an able tactician, dispassionate and generally diplomatic. Last week he succeeded in keeping off the agenda, for the seventh year...
...cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack 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 of the state Capitol on Beacon Hill was painted grey, but now it is gold again...