Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They underestimated Angles. Frankie loosened his ties to MGM. "Then," says he, "I started all over again with a clean slate." He changed his agent, from M.C.A. to William Morris; he changed his record company, from Columbia to Capitol. His voice came back, better than ever; record sales began to climb. He started to freelance in TV on a larger scale, and to look around for roles he really liked in the movies. Along came Eternity. "That's me!" said Frank Sinatra when he read about the roistering, ill-starred little Italian named Maggio. He wanted the part...
...Legend has it that Franklin Roosevelt was out for a drive, when he asked the name of the place. "Bethesda?" he repeated. "That was 'the pool of healing.' What a place for a hospital!" F.D.R. had seen the tower capping Nebraska's capitol in Lincoln and had vowed: "Some day I'm going to build a Government building like that." Over the vigorous protests of his esthete uncle, Planning Commissioner Frederic Delano, he did. The highly impractical tower was built into the Navy's hospital at Bethesda...
...favorite method of impressing the voters is to grab for headlines; before the last election, Capitol Hill newsmen informally chose him as the Congressman with the most press releases. He once said that the recipe for success in Congress is to exhibit "the brashness of a sophomore . . . the perseverance of a bill collector." Last week, in the news vacuum that followed Congress' adjournment, Congressman Celler was exhibiting all the brashness and perseverance that he could muster...
...Bark Was Worse Than the Bite UNDER the Administration of President Dwight Eisenhower, business has had a more favorable atmosphere in Washington than at any time in the past 20 years. But on Capitol Hill, particularly after the U.S. elected a Democratic-controlled Congress last fall, there has been a barrage of anti-business talk. Now that the House and Senate have finished their work for this year, how did business and the businessman actually fare in the first session of the 84th Congress? Within two days after the new Congress organized in January, Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright...
...Come. With a show of pious reluctance, Governor Shivers broke the sad news to Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...