Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leader Ken Wherry called up the anti-poll tax bill. From his seat under the Senate's big gilt clock, Mississippi's quiet John Stennis picked...
...this week it was clear that the only "anti-inflation" bills with any chance of passage were those to control consumer credit and to tighten up bank loans. Congress might also approve the $65 million building loan for U.N., and remove the discriminatory provisions from the D.P. bill. The rest of the President's program had no more chance than a snowball in summer Washington...
...opens his home to the world . . . The video hostess soon finds that her cocktail shaker ... is no better than a thimble . . . The family's evening is not tainted with such an archaic pursuit as ... conversation. A mute tranquillity has overtaken the American home." ¶Two Congressmen introduced a bill proposing 1) that the U.S. build a $2,500,000 house for its Vice President, and 2) pending construction of the new mansion, house him in dignified old Blair House, now used to accommodate foreign visitors. Blair House's longtime custodian, Mrs. Victoria Geaney, protested with vigor. "Visitors from...
...chemical fumes threw back rescue workers. As the fires raged on into the night, these G.I.s, led by quiet little Lieut. Colonel Walter F. Partin of Nashville, Tenn., worked without pause, performing a thousand acts of heroism in the smoke & flames. Bulldozing a path through one rubble-strewn street, Bill McKee, a big, tough technician, fourth grade, spotted six loaded gasoline tank cars on a siding next to one of the biggest fires. Wheeling his bulldozer around, he plunged into the smoke, came out pulling the cars away from danger...
...Secret Service boys" pried into the presidential steaks and fillets; members of the Fine Arts Commission studied the least new drape with a beady eye; maintenance officers checked the smallest bill. Breakfast began at 6 a.m., ended at noon, when lunch began. It was hard to tell how much silver there was, because visitors not only pocketed the monogrammed spoons and forks but even managed to get away with large trays and colonial bowls...