Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poll only complicated the Labor government's dilemma. To uphold the House of Commons, it might have to adopt a bill it had not really wanted. On the other hand, if it followed public opinion, it would be upholding the almost, but not quite, forgotten Lords...
...week, on the fifth anniversary of the Colonels' Revolution, General Rawson wrote: "The objectives were very simple; first, to restore administrative morality; second, to re-establish the country in the community of American nations; and third, to return the country to [political] normality." From Buenos Aires, TIME Correspondent Bill Johnson cabled his estimate of what the revolution has accomplished...
Twisted Facts. It was neither true nor new, and it had already been investigated at length by Congress. Before the Tribune twisted them, the facts were these: last January Congress had approved the Smith-Mundt bill, which set up a bureau to run the Voice of America and otherwise see that the U.S. story is told abroad. The bill called for the widest use of private agencies in telling that story. The free, nongovernmental press, said Congressmen who toured Europe last summer, was the best weapon against Russia's propaganda...
Parcel Post. A bill to set up an air parcel post system was passed by the Senate. It provides for parcels up to 70 pounds to be airmailed anywhere within the U.S., at 55? to 80? a pound, depending on the distance. The House is expected to pass the bill before adjournment, thus giving scheduled airlines a much needed boost in business...
...lyric poet (Reginald Beane) of the hot piano; a cop (Broderick Crawford) so kind-hearted he wants to hand in his badge; an old Arab (Pedro de Cordoba) with exquisite hands and a diagnosis of the world's ills: "No foundation all down the line." The bartender is Bill Bendix at his gentlest...