Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the Capitol, the Senate moved steadily toward adjournment, whooping through 134 bills (nearly all of them minor) in one two-hour period. The Senate's big items concerned two politically loaded pieces of legislation. On one, the proposal for a federal dam in Hell's Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border, the Democratic leadership took a whipping from the Administration. On the other, social-security expansion, the Democrats passed an Administration-opposed bill that will be useful this fall. In all, the tortoise was doing nicely...
...Senate chamber last week rang with a familiar Democratic cry: "Giveaway!" Democratic leaders were struggling to override the Federal Power Commission's decision (TIME, Aug. 15, 1955) to permit the Idaho Power Co. to build three small dams in the Hell's Canyon area of the Snake River. Before the Senate was a Democrat-sponsored bill to 1) order the private development halted (Idaho Power has already begun work at Brownlee, plans to spend $175 million), and 2) build a single, multipurpose, $308 million federal dam in Hell's Canyon. Main reason for the all-out Democratic...
...Administration's "giveaway" in Hell's Canyon, cried Senate Democrats, would "reverse 50 years of conservation policy." They complained bitterly of Administration pressures against their bill. "The White House," said Wyoming's Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, "is marshaling all the pressure it can" against the bill on the theory that "if the Hell's Canyon bill can be defeated, Wayne Morse can also be defeated." In the end, an almost solid phalanx of Republicans (exceptions: Wisconsin's Alex Wiley and North Dakota's Bill Langer), joined by eight conservative Southern Democrats, struck...
...Jesuit Gimmick. Heroine of the play is a guardian angel just released from the heroic job of keeping a movie queen out of hell. "Love was a game," she sings of her former charge. "Men were so tame/ Like Nashua she ran every race./Though in her prime She lost every time./ But she died in the state of grace...
Everything else about the show is pretty bad. The dialogue is dated and unfunny, replete with numerous telephone calls from "Harry," references to "Margaret" and the music critics, allusions to Senator McCarthy, and unnecessary "damn's" and "hell's." Such lines as "I'm so happy I ought to be investigated" and "The trouble with these European governments is that they're all run by foreigners" stood out among the evening's whimsical gems. Milton Lyons' direction was intolerably slow, listless, and indifferent. The costumes designed by Louise Smith were gaudy and in very poor taste. Miss Smith's diplomats...