Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Snow, mixed with a northwest wind, drove across Washington's National Airport as the presidential Columbine III touched down on its special flight from Florida. Columbine's chief passenger: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, 71, ordered back by his doctors from his convalescence at Jupiter Island. Fla. (TIME, April 13) to re-enter Walter Reed
...morning newspaper was nothing but pleasure for Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson. Texan Johnson's weighty advice to the Administration on budget and defense policies, and his considerable success in steering the Senate to spectacular compromise on the filibuster and the housing bill, were the talk of Washington. But by last week Lyndon Johnson had become accustomed to finding more headaches in headlines than he had known in years...
...these slings Johnson bore in tight-lipped silence. Then, with little advance warning, he showed up last week as the only congressional leader at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. unemployment rally in Washington's armory (see The Economy), drew roars by roasting the Administration for rejecting "prudent proposals to expand the economy of our country." Back he went to the Senate to show what a man of action could do. He introduced a bill setting up an eleven-member, legislative-executive unemployment fact-finding commission. Scarcely three hours after the bill was hoppered. 68 Senators had stepped forward to cosponsor...
...midflight Eastland recessed the hearing so everybody could go out to watch the Washington Senators open the season against the Baltimore Orioles (Senators 9, Orioles 2), which meant that Justice Stewart would be back again this week...
Returning to Washington, the delegation carried Ike's word to a meeting of the full committee. By acclamation, tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...