Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan, with its proposal for high prices on the farm, low prices in the grocery store, and Government subsidies to pay the difference. Kline favored instead a "sliding scale" parity program with a minimum of federal controls, based at an even lower level than the present compromise farm bill. But how did the rank & file of the prosperous, conservative Farm Bureau feel about it? Thousands of its members owed much of their current well-being to measures of the Truman Administration; thousands had voted for Harry Truman in 1948. With the Brannan Plan as bait, the Democrats were hoping...
...least one Roman senator, grey, motherly, left-wing Socialist Angelina Merlin, this situation was a "social disgrace." A year ago last August, she introduced a bill to outlaw houses of prostitution in Italy...
McCloskey spoke at the army base in South Boston on "Personal Freedom and the Bill of Rights" as a part of a series of talks to Army men on citizenship. Other University professors are expected to participate in these programs later in the winter...
...discussing the Bill of Rights, McCloskey criticized the army for excluding Japanese from the West Coast during World War II. He emphasized that a democratic spirit in the people and the government is vital in retaining liberties for the public...
McCloskey noted that defects in the Bill of Rights include: its failure to protect citizens from excesses of the state government, outdated clauses, commission of a provision to guarantee the right to vote, and limitations inherent in its enforcement by the judiciary...