Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assistant Press Secretary Murray Snyder arrived at the White House, took one last exacting look at the completed draft, one hour later released it to the press marked FOR RELEASE AT NOON. The signature copies, signed and enclosed in big White House envelopes, were taken up to Capitol Hill. Shortly after noon the clerks began to read the 7,500 words of the message. It took Senate Clerk Edward E. Mansur Jr. 51 minutes and House Clerk George J. Maurer one minute more...
...Washington, Kubitschek found Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Treasury Secretary George Humphrey waiting at the airport. Sped to the Capitol behind a motorcycle escort, the visitor, 80 minutes late, found the House adjourned and half the Senate absent. With a translator's help, he delivered a seven-minute speech to the Senate, drew five rounds of applause. The U.S. and Brazil, he said, "share the same ideals, the same sentiments, the same respect for the paramount dignity...
Playboy, was, however, misshipped, and instead of arriving at Capitol News Co. in Boston, the local distributor, found its way to the offices of another news company, of the same name, but not in the Boston area...
...practically pushed into politics. Lincoln, a one-industry town of 1,500, was dominated by the Parker-Young Co. In 1940, says Martin Brown, then Parker-Young's president, "some of the men at the mill said we ought to send a better type down to the Capitol. They said the men we had sent there were not attending to business." Brown called a meeting of about 25 company officials and suggested that Adams be put up for the legislature.* The proposal was agreed upon. Next day Brown walked into Adams' office and said: "Sherm, I guess...
Immediately below Adams is his deputy, soft-spoken Major General (ret.) Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 59. Persons spent 13 years as an Army liaison man on Capitol Hill, part of that time as Army Chief of Staff Eisenhower's representative with Congress. Under Persons, as liaison men with Congress, are Administrative Assistants I. Jack Martin, 47, and Bryce Harlow, 39. Martin, onetime administrative assistant to Senator Robert A. Taft, is especially liked and respected on the Hill...