Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s unemployment rally in Washington last month. Labor Secretary James Mitchell promised to publicly eat his hat if October figures did not drop unemployment to 3,000,000 and raise employment to 67 million. Still to go: six months, a rise of 2,000,000 employed and a cut of 625,000 unemployed. It began to look as though Jim Mitchell's hat was safe...
...Queen. That evening, back in Washington, at a stag dinner in the green-and-gold White House state dining room, the President of the U.S. moved the U.S.'s welcome of Sir Winston Churchill to a high point. Said President Eisenhower, as he raised a champagne goblet in a toast to Queen Elizabeth: "Here is a man who makes on all who meet him an impression that is unforgettable. Now, for me, I met him in this house-and this was something for a newly commissioned brigadier. In the same room that he is now occupying is where...
...week's end Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, commerce committee chairman, announced that he hoped his committee would take action on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss this week. At that point, 111 days had passed since President Eisenhower had sent Strauss's nomination to the Senate-two days more than the total time it had taken the Senate to confirm all 13 of Lewis Strauss's predecessors as Secretary of Commerce...
...years after Kuter got his star, the Ninth Air Force's Richard C. Sanders made brigadier general at 28, becoming the youngest U.S. general since the boyish brigadiers of Civil War and Indian war days. Sanders is now retired, lives in Washington...
Threading the black Defense Department limousine through Washington's morning traffic, Chauffeur Clarence Mason wheeled smartly up to the Porter Street house in the capital's Cleveland Park section. Mason's assignment: to pick up Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles and deliver him to a 7:45 a.m. television date on Dave Garroway's Today show at the NBC studios. Ordinarily, punctual Don Quarles was on hand when his car rolled up; this time Mason settled down to wait. Then he noticed the morning newspaper still lying on the doorstep. Walking uncertainly into the quiet...