Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cash & Carry. To postpone the Capehart vote, Johnson squeezed in two amendments dear to the Connecticut constituents of Republican Prescott Bush. Result: not only more time, but Bush's vote in the showdown. By accepting Republican Ralph Flanders' proposal to link the rate of housing starts to fluctuations in general business activity, Johnson won Flanders' vote. Then he cashed in lOUs with two other G.O.P. Senators, getting them to offset two of Johnson's absent Democrats by not voting themselves...
...gathered in the meadows and lawns of an old homestead to honor Nathan Hale, the young patriot-spy of the American Revolution on the 200th anniversary of his birth. In a large circus tent near the old Hale house, greetings from President Eisenhower were read, and Connecticut's Governor Abraham Ribicoff praised Hale's bravery and sacrifice. Local churchwomen, dressed in the costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings, tricorn hats and fawn-colored breeches, played 18th-century music...
Nathan graduated from Yale at 18 and became a teacher. For a while he was the schoolmaster at Haddam Landing on the Connecticut River; later he moved to New London, where in the summer mornings he taught a class of girls from 5 to 7 a.m. He was happy in his work, but a few weeks after the Battle of Lexington and Concord, he decided to join the Army and was commissioned a lieutenant. "I have thought much of never quitting it [teaching] but with life," he wrote the New London school trustees, requesting release from his contract...
...Martin, nominally in charge of the bill as ranking Republican on the Public Works Committee, proved a perfect target for Democratic hecklers. When asked if U.S. taxpayers would not have to meet the high interest charges against the highway bonds, Martin replied: "It is unnecessary to worry about that . . ." Connecticut's Republican Senator Prescott Bush, standing almost alone in full support of the Administration, was swarmed over by Democrats while other Republicans watched complacently...
Three of the committee's seven Republicans (New York's Ives, Connecticut's Bush and Maine's Payne) went along with the Democrats' recommendations but appended a note of disagreement on the committee's view of the stock-market rise. The report, said they, gave "insufficient emphasis" for the rise to the confidence that the public has in the Eisenhower Administration...