Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole bill, as finally passed, would put billions of federal dollars into a broad attack on the problem of an underbuilt nation. Its features...
...rent housing program, for which the Government will dole out $400 million a year-if that much is needed-for the next 40 years; 1,050,000 low-rent housing units were ordered up in the next seven years (the Senate's bill would spend only $308 million a year on 810,000 units and the House figures will undoubtedly be adjusted to that in conference). The Government will make up the difference between the artificially low rents and the actual operating costs...
Pennsylvania's Congressman Francis Walter promptly began drafting a bill to provide what had always been assumed before: that Congress can run its business the way it pleases. Supreme Court decisions, groused Walter, echoing a former justice, are getting to be "like excursion tickets-good for one day only...
...cross-burning, sheeted hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan, though they might get the headlines, did not speak for Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
...from Comrade Williams, the miners struck June 27. Australia's Laborite Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, veteran of many a railway walkout, was jolted out of Australia's usual tolerance of communism. For the first time, Chifley denounced the Communists, and his government hurriedly drafted an emergency bill that would prevent unions from using their funds to support strikes called during arbitration proceedings. Most of Australian labor supported the bill. It passed without dissent. Cried Labor M.P. Leslie Haylen: "Reds act here as in Berlin. They choose the depth of a hard winter to try and suborn...