Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After hours of such talk, the Senate passed the salary bill (68 to 9). It was as nice a raise as anyone would get in the U.S. in 1949. The same bill raised the Vice President's and the Speaker's salaries from $20,000 to $30,000, and gave them each $10,000 in tax-free expense money to boot. The House passed the bill this week...
Where Will We Wind Up? On the House side, Republicans were still trying groggily to get on their feet. They heard that Speaker Sam Rayburn, more confident than a lot of others, hoped to have a bill repealing the Taft-Hartley act on the floor by March 1, and would try to give Harry Truman just about everything else he wanted-with the possible exception of the whole $4 billion in new taxes. With tears actually running down his face, one angry and frustrated G.O.P. leader said: "I can't imagine what Sam Rayburn and John McCormack [majority leader...
Standing at Valley Forge. Columnist Walter Winchell caught the scent. He echoed the baying from the far left, also saw Forrestal plotting a Wall Street dictatorship. Leaping on a civil-defense bill prepared at Forrestal's direction, he shrilled that if the bill passed, "you may be in jail for reasons they will not even tell you. You think you are sitting in your homes tonight but. . . you and your liberties are again standing at Valley Forge." The liberal St. Louis Post-Dispatch said of the plan: "The sooner it is enacted . . . the more soundly the nation can sleep...
...credo of Andrew Undershaft, the munitions magnate in Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. By their works, the world has known many Undershafts. It has always denounced them, and always kept them around. The Undershafts lived by making weapons of war for anyone who could pay the bill; sometimes they also made wars. Through the twilight of fact and legend that surrounded them and their international arms deals, they were known to Sunday supplement readers as merchants of death. The least known, and perhaps the last, of their brotherhood was a man who looked like a tall, friendly duck...
...auto industry because "it's a dramatic business, you know." After World War I, he joined Remy Electric Co., a General Motors subsidiary, as chief engineer and sales manager. In nine years he was a G.M. vice president; five years after that he became Bill Knudsen's right-hand man. In 1940, when F.D.R. tapped Knudsen to direct defense production, Vice President Wilson stepped easily into the great Dane's shoes. Since then he has had two big projects: 1) mobilize G.M. for war (tanks, planes, jet engines, etc.), and 2) reconvert it for peace...