Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head to dramatize the clean sweep he intended to make (and did) at graft-ridden city hall. Against Duff, he demonstrated the same ability to pound home simple, telling points. His most effective charge: Duff's frequent absences from the Senate left Pennsylvania with an empty chair on Capitol Hill...
...went"; "Democrats have did"), but he speaks a language that opens the ears. "The cost of state government when income is on the decline is the No. 1 problem in Iowa," he tells his campaign audiences. "Do you want 'High-Tax Hoegh' back in the State Capitol...
Cello Colours (Andre Navarra; Capitol). A varied recital of fine celloing, effective whether in the melancholic atmosphere of Faure's Elegie or the gee-whiz intricacies of Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. French Cellist Navarra gives the lie to the old saying that cellists are incurable sentimentalists...
Outside the Capitol at Atlanta on an eventful night in 1947, the January landscape lay wet with rain, and a low mist wreathed the statue of Freedom topping the limestone building. Inside, the Georgia legislature commenced the final act of a political drama opened 25 days earlier when gallus-snapping Gene Talmadge, after 20 years of politics and prejudice, died on the eve of his fourth gubernatorial term. Aware that Gene was seriously ill on election day, some supporters had cast write-in votes for his son, gone out to marshal dead voters whose names could shoot his total higher...
...where outgoing Governor Ellis Arnall awaited the legislature's decision. Said Herman: "I have come to take over." Snapped Arnall: "I consider you a pretender. Get out." Herman got, was back in seven hours, after state troopers had changed the locks on the doors. Herman Talmadge held the Capitol and the governor's mansion until the State Supreme Court 67 days later ruled that he had taken office illegally. But even as he yielded, Georgians understood that a new comet was brilliant in their political...