Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...killed a bill to take the pillowcase off the face of the Ku Klux Klan. It had extended civil service protection to a number of state boards, all of them manned now by Talmadge men. It had left juicy highway contracts to be farmed out by the governor and kept home rule from the cities...
Also rammed through was a re-registration bill, the net effect of which would be to disfranchise more Negroes, cut down voters' lists and make elections easier to swing. To supplement this, Hummon's boys extended the county-unit voting system to general elections, subject to approval of the voters in 1950. The unit-voting system makes it possible for Hummon's beloved piney-woods counties to outvote their city neighbors...
...cages, time locks on the front door and the safe. The equipment didn't come until after the third robbery. The locked door alone might have prevented the third robbery, except that Director Henry Berens kindly opened the door for a stranger who was waving a $10 bill...
...there will be nothing but ruin for this country." Patel did not wait for the unions to arrest Communist leaders. He started a roundup of his own. By week's end, some 1,000 Communists were crammed into already-bulging provincial jails. In the New Delhi legislature a bill was introduced which would impose stiff fines and jail sentences for strikers against essential industries, i.e., railways, postal telegraph and telephone, arms manufactures...
...Argentine-Chilean border, was an irresistible challenge. Hackett had started climbing at twelve in the Olympic Range near Bremerton, Wash., had served with mountain infantry in World War II. In 1947, Lieut. Hackett joined a scientific expedition that scaled Alaska's Mt. McKinley. Last month 30-year-old Bill Hackett got a 45-day leave from his post at Fort Benning, Ga., and set his sights for Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere's highest peak...