Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mike Stepovich (running for the U.S. Senate). President of the 1955 Alaska constitutional convention, Valdez Grocer Egan is his party's second-ranking vote getter (after indefatigable Delegate to Congress E. L. -"Bob"-Bartlett). Even though penny-pinching Bill Egan lost ten campaign days by driving home from Washington to save plane fare, he will probably win the governorship in a walk-and with it the chance to fill state administrative ranks with some 1,000 Democrat appointees...
...public weariness with his erratic conduct in office. In the primary, Roberts had to run against his ambitious lieutenant governor, Armand H. Cote, won by only 11,000 votes. And hapless Governor Roberts still has to explain why he fired a telegram (also signed by ten other Governors) to Washington last February demanding a federal tax cut from President Eisenhower, while simultaneously asking his own Rhode Island taxpayers to cough up another $10 million...
Harriman abandoned the Republican Party in 1928 to vote for Al Smith, four years later pushed for the presidential election of his fellow squire, Franklin Roosevelt. After a series of Washington jobs in the NRA '305, Harriman spent 1941 to 1943 in London and Moscow as F.D.R.'s special-missions contact and Lend-Lease expediter, was Ambassador to Russia (1943-46), then to the Court of St. James's (1946), and Truman's Secretary of Commerce in the same year. Two years later, he was Marshall Plan ambassador in Europe, then Special Assistant to the President...
Before the U.N. meeting there was genuine high-level concern in Washington that Canada might not support the U.S. resolution to postpone for another year U.N. debate on Red China's admission. Wisely, Washington applied no pressure. Great Britain, however, did, arguing that Western unity was at stake...
Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...