Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill to designate the Missouri Waltz an official state song was killed by the Missouri senate after opponents had described it as a "low-rate, second-class barroom ballad...
...Issue. Across the Hill, in a Senate committee room, Mississippi's rabble-rousing Senator James O. Eastland faced C. B. Baldwin, secretary of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party. "Beanie" Baldwin was there to protest an anti-Communist bill. Baldwin, who off the stand said he was no Communist, refused on the stand to answer whether he was one or not. Angry at Eastland's insistence, Baldwin shouted: "You've been fighting against Negro rights ever since you became a Senator...
...Fist of His Power." What little chance the Administration had of putting over its bill (reenactment of the Wagner Act with a little stiffening) was knocked galley west when John L. Lewis called his coal strike (see below). Propositions for labor bills were sticking out of virtually every other Senator's pocket. But there was not enough support for any one proposition to put it over...
...Elizabeth had worn Glenn's gold football, Mrs. Taylor admitted, but only as "a perfectly normal part of growing up." Elizabeth, looking alluringly grown up last week, flashed a 3½-carat diamond at reporters. "Nice piece of ice," she said happily. "At least, that's what Bill calls...
...last week Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan suddenly changed the rules-and drove the shorts to buying to cover their contracts. Brannan had been begging Congress to give him the power to buy or build additional storage facilities. When Congress finally passed such a bill last week, Brannan acted fast. He not only used the powers Congress had just given him, but dusted off some old ones-which he had had all the time-to give the farmers a lot more...