Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most controversial measures in Harry Truman's program were still to be met. After the recess, the House would tackle the Administration's bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law. Administration strategists figured that a short visit with the home folks would win many Congressmen over to the Administration's side. Just to be sure, from A.F.L. and C.I.O. headquarters, orders went to locals all over the country. When Congressmen turned in the front gate, they would find delegations waiting on the front doorstep. A Democratic leader hopefully predicted: "We're going to pass a pretty...
...Salem, Ore., theater owners denounced as un-American a bill to ban pop corn & peanuts from movie houses. In Washington, the C.I.O.'s shirt-sleeved Political Action Committee moved to fancy new quarters formerly occupied by the Dewey-Warren committee...
...tiny, single-engined Aeronca, Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel, of Fullerton, Calif., broke a ten-year-old flight endurance record (726 hours), vowed to stay aloft until they had passed 1,000. To refuel, they dropped to five feet from the ground, picked up fuel, oil and food from a car speeding down the runway at 70 miles an hour...
...heart aik ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
Died. Horace Brown, 72, New England landscape artist who campaigned vigorously for many years and finally helped get a bill passed in Vermont regulating roadside billboards which marred the beauty of the countryside; after a heart attack; in Manhattan...