Word: bill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year record of growth was genuinely imperiled by labor's split. Good union men could look skeptical while businessmen complained loudly about the cost of A. F. of L.C. I. O. conflict. They could listen, polite but unimpressed, while politicians shuddered and sighed over the fearful feud of Bill Green and John Lewis. Last week Son Elliott Roosevelt talked long and earnestly over the radio about the Chrysler strike, suggested that John Lewis' inability to make peace with Bill Green indicated he was not all "he had been cracked...
...pensions. Texans last week cast up accounts, noted that after a year's fiddling and finagling, "Pappy" O'Daniel had sliced the average $8-a-month old-age pension to about $6, had in some cases cut pensions as low as $1, was stalling on a tax bill to pay off his promises. Dissatisfaction flamed. O'Daniel's impeachment on a technicality was proposed, to permit calling of a tax session of the legislature by Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson. A more lyrical O'Daniel promise was next impeached: His campaign song, Please Pass The Biscuits...
Federal spending for relief in Ohio had amounted to $80,000,000 a year. When the State itself was presented with the whole bill, a rural-dominated Legislature cut the figure to $15,000,000, later reduced it further. Estimated minimum need of the State: $30,000,000. Families who had been receiving $35 from the U. S. got $9, $10, $12 from the State...
...motion came up in Congress to make Peary a rear-admiral on retired status. The bill was finally passed, but not without some catcalls of "bogus hero," "braggart," "selfish egotist...
...team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy days (when less than a full team showed...