Word: interior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were two things to be done: either tear down the White House and start anew, or save the shell and rebuild the foundations and interior. Tearing it down entirely would have saved perhaps 10% of the bill, but even the most tight-fisted Congressman found a little sentiment stirring in his breast at so crass a thought. Last week a congressional committee approved plans for the spending of $5,400,000 to restore 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a way destined to make the White House survive in all its classic glory for another 300 to 500 years...
...Rome, Italy's senators got similar exercise. Just before the Atlantic pact debate, Interior Minister Mario Scelba discussed Communist charges that he had used his police force illegally during the recent farm strike. Said he: "Idle talk to make us lose our nerve. But the government in general and I in particular have stronger nerves than some quarters." Communist nerves had been edgy all day. When a Christian Democratic senator called a Communist senator "an unworthy child of Sardinia," the Sardinian demanded that his opponent retract the remark on pain of having his ears cut off. The opponent...
...political party-Compactación Nacional (National Coalition)-and fight for his ideas. He would run for Vice President in next October's elections. In the interim between Figueres' resignation and the accession of beetle-browed Publisher Ulate, who assumes the presidency in November, stolid Interior Minister Fernando Valverde would act as chief of state...
...kingdom of Laos is a wild and mountainous strip of land in the interior of Indo-China. It is almost twice as large (89,320 sq. mi.) as Pennsylvania, has a population of 1,012,000. Last week, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Sisavang Vong, King of the Laotians, and French President Vincent Auriol signed a treaty establishing Laos as an independent nation within the French Union. French soldiers, who henceforth would be required to salute the Laotian flag, should have little trouble recognizing it: a red field bearing a three-headed white elephant topped by an umbrella...
Specifically, Butler mentioned ex-CAB Chairman James Landis, ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, ex-OPA Boss Paul Porter and ex-Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas. He called them "the real influence men ... the professional bleeding hearts of the New Deal who have been converted to the private enterprise system by ... fat legal fees." Butler wanted to outlaw all such representation for at least two years after officials left federal service...