Word: capitols
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crutches only a few days earlier, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy, 38. reappeared on the Capitol steps in Washington. At last relieved of the effects of an old World War II naval battle injury by a spinal operation last October, Jack Kennedy looked tan and hardy after five months of Florida sun shine and home care from his pretty wife Jacqueline. Nor was his convalescence wasted time : he had written a book about memorable moments in the Senate's his tory, had kept up with its current meanderings by daily browsings through the windy Congressional Record. Chuckled...
Deterrence Without Bellicosity. When the political reviews of the television performance were in, some politicians on Capitol Hill thought that Dulles and the President were too bold about the international situation and others thought that they were too timid. Some pundits clucked that crucial international issues should not be discussed on such an informal show. But it was clear that Dwight Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles had done a remarkably good job of explaining U.S. foreign policy in a way that the people...
Replying to a newsman's question, the President said that not in a long time had he studied anything more earnestly. On Capitol Hill, the bill's backers hoped to override the veto...
President Eisenhower's statement that the U.S. is willing to negotiate with Communist China on a cease-fire in the Formosa Strait set off high winds on Capitol Hill. Quick and bitter criticism came from Senate Republican Leader William Knowland and from Indiana's Republican Senator William E. Jenner. Retired Brigadier General Frank L. Howley, onetime (1945-49) U.S. commandant in Berlin and now a vice-chancellor of New York University, also spoke out bluntly against his old commander. Finally, at week's end, a dozen G.O.P. Senators, rallied to action by New Jersey's Senator...
...security, e.g., the Federal Government still owns and operates about 168 icecream plants in 36 states, 23 in California alone. Such nonessential activities drain off men and money that could better be used for the defense of the nation. But cutting back almost any Government activity brings protests from Capitol Hill. For example, Massachusetts' Senator John F. Kennedy has already protested to the Navy against shutting down the Ropewalk, on the grounds that it is necessary to the "national interest." In the huge, amorphous layers of Government, not even the experts can calculate how much money has been saved...