Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remember debating "Recognition of Russia" with red-haired Bill Remington (William W. of the Department of Commerce) 15 years ago at Ridgewood (N.J.) High School. His classmates in their 1934 yearbook predicted that he would be a "Union Square Soap Boxer...
...Called the GOP anti-inflation bill a "tiny fraction" of what was needed, but signed it anyway. It authorizes controls on installment buying and increased bank reserves...
Without so much as looking at the Mimeographed budget report on their desks, Peronistas put through an 8.6 billion-peso ($1.8 billion) budget. In four hours they passed 28 bills, including one that would give the President a dictator's power: it authorized him to mobilize men and resources by decree whenever he thought the nation's welfare demanded it. Peronista deputies did not bother even to have the bill read aloud...
When Peronistas brought up a bill to call a convention for amending the Constitution of 1853, the opposition knew that it was time to fight or flee. They fought...
Return of the Bad Men (RKO Radio] has enough bad men in the cast to stock a year's output of westerns. It includes such semi-legendary desperadoes as Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Doolin, Wild Bill Yeager, The Arkansas Kid, Cole, Jim & John Younger, Emmett, Bob & Grat Dalton, and the Sundance Kid. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a case of too many crooks: most of these villains, though fairly well cast and reasonably picturesque, merely get in the way of each other's villainy...