Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leadership, under which $24 billion would have been spent in 13 years, financed by road-tax increases, on gasoline, diesel fuel, truck tires, etc. Against this bill stood the American Trucking Associations, Inc. and its network of state organizations. The A.T.A. threw only three lobbyists into the fight on Capitol Hill, but its state units had alerted individual trucking lines, large and small. From the truckers themselves came a storm of telephone calls and telegrams (the House Public Works Committee, which handled the bill, got 5,000 wires...
...airing of Talbott's techniques with R.C.A. sent Capitol Hill Republicans into a swivet. Ohio's Republican Senator George Bender said expansively that Talbott is known "as the most cussingest man in Ohio-but aside from that I do not know of any other impropriety." There were other Republicans who thought that Talbott should be summarily fired; a Senate party caucus broke up in total disagreement about what should be done. Capitol Hill Democrats, meanwhile, were gloating quietly, smiling at Harold Talbott, while skillfully leading him-with substantial help from Talbott-to the chopping block...
...Final Decision." The final decision on what should be done about Harold Talbott was not to be made by the men on Capitol Hill. At the White House news conference, President Eisenhower said that "those parts of Secretary Talbott's official duties with which I have come in contact have been almost brilliantly performed." He pointed out that Talbott had not been charged with an illegal act. But he also said: "I do not believe that any man can hold, properly hold, public office merely because he is not guilty of any illegal act ... So what is now involved...
...Wetherbine") and Senator Earle Clements ("Clementine"), the acting majority leader of the U.S. Senate and absentee Democratic boss of Kentucky. Happy has made much of a rug in Wetherby's office, which he says cost $20,000, and of an $863,200 bill for air-conditioning the state Capitol...
Wetherby produced an invoice to prove that the rug cost only $2,720, and pointed out that the $863,200 paid for a new heating plant for the Capitol, plus wiring, plumbing, and other renovations, as well as air conditioning. But Happy paid no attention. "Did you ever see a $20,000 rug?" he asked his audiences. "When I get elected, you all come to Frankfort, and we'll take our shoes off and walk...