Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Western Europe accepted our good faith and proceeded to prove their own. They did it at the hazard of serious reprisal. . . Any such cynical reversal would be a major policy decision which should not be made through the back door of an appropriation bill. Indeed, it should not be made...
...Martin's attorney general, he banged head-on into Joe Grundy's industrialists. Under Duff's urging, Ed Martin liberalized workmen's compensation and unemployment laws (which Joe Grundy and the P.M.A. have always considered the devil's work), pushed through a bill to curb the discharge of mine silt into the Schuylkill River. When mineowners protested, redheaded...
...Free Seats. Go-slow Grundymen, alarmed by such sudden changes, began to eye the state capital with increasing suspicion. When Jim Duff presented his bill, they yowled for vengeance. To raise an extra $133 million in state revenue he increased cigarette taxes from 2? to 4? a pack, slapped new taxes on beer (½? pint) and soft drinks (1? per 12 ounces). Then he prevented repeal of the five-mill tax levied on manufacturers' capital stocks and franchises...
Pledges & Publicity. On the domestic front, the 80th wrote the first major labor law in twelve years, and redressed the balance between labor and management. It found an equitable formula to reduce taxes. It passed a wise presidential-succession bill (proposed by the President), authorized unification of the services, and showed determination and foresight in overwhelmingly approving a 70-group Air Force in the face of Navy-minded opposition by the Administration. Its unwillingness to control prices reflected its G.O.P. majority's faith in a free economy, its distaste for peacetime controls...
Like other Congresses, the 80th had been petty on occasion, had politicked often. It had jammed through the wool bill, a piece of old-line protectionism which the President properly vetoed. The Senate's bitter fight over confirmation of AEC Chairman David Lilienthal had been no credit to the 80th Congress. The House had dragged its feet on foreign aid, twice had almost upset the applecart (with its vote to include Spain in ECA, its slash in ECA appropriations). No one was proud of the 15% "voluntary" rent-control bill. Action on housing and admission of D.P.s was long...