Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taft Memorial Foundation offered to erect a monument on the north slope of Capitol Hill-only 600 ft. from the chamber of the U.S. Senate in which Taft served for 14 years. The monument: a slim, shafted marble tower, 100 ft. high, with a carillon of 25 bells and a relief sculpture of the Senator (see cut). The cost (about $1,000,000) would be financed by public donations, and 63 Senators from both parties joined in sponsoring the enabling bill. Wrote the foundation's chairman, ex-President Herbert Hoover: the Taft monument would commemorate "the simplicity and greatness...
...them are coming in here asking for home-town newspapers. Three years ago, they didn't give a damn. They just grabbed the nearest newspaper and looked at the headlines quick-to see were we in a war again, or maybe had the Commies walked off with the Capitol dome. Now it's important to them to know who's marrying who and who's divorcing who back in the old home town...
...Legislative Leader. In his relation ships with Capitol Hill, the President has adhered strictly to his clear consciousness of the division of powers in Government under the U.S. Constitution. Generally, he has proposed, and has let the Congress dispose...
What if Eisenhower does not run next year? Last week one California Republican wryly cracked that almost everyone in the state is happy and optimistic except G.O.P. leaders, who are worried to ulcers about what will happen if Ike steps out. Said a Democrat on Capitol Hill: "If Ike doesn't run in '56, it won't make any difference whom the Republicans nominate; the convention won't be over in time for the election." At times, the President frightens party leaders by acting as if he is determined to retire to his farm at Gettysburg...
...agencies and linking them to the U.N. proper is the job of the Secretariat: some 3,100 international civil servants who work in the U.N.'s "glass house," overlooking Manhattan's East River. A shaft of gleaming white marble boxing 5,400 green-tinted windows, the U.N. capitol was built on land that was paid for by John D. Rockefeller Jr. (price: $8,500,000) and furnished with teak from Burma, Jerusalem stone from Israel, carpets from India and Iran, and dramatically barren decoration by the Scandinavians. The U.N. Plaza has become Manhattan's top tourist attraction...