Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chains, it has been to the shame of our nation. The fact that because of the present hysteria it has been possible to give the jailing of the Communists a legal hale is irrelevant. An attack on liberty of expression can come through executive (loyalty board), legislative (Sullivan Bill) or judicial (trial of Communists) means. Whatever form it takes it must be stopped. Richard W. Reichard...
...harvesting of the bumper California raisin grape crop, which just ended, was good news last week for pigs, but bad news for taxpayers. The pigs will get most of the surplus raisins for fodder, and the taxpayers will get a bill for about $5,000,000. This giveaway program, just like the expensive program in potatoes and flaxseed, is the result of Congress' love for price supports...
...forced into this disastrous policy by the British government's dollar-saving quota slapped on U.S. movies in 1947 (40% of the pictures shown in British theaters must be British made). He was also hit when Hollywood retaliated by refusing to show U.S. pictures on the same bill with British films. Since Rank owns 60% of Britain's theaters, he was under heavy government pressure to step up his picture-making activities...
...former RFC director and onetime South Carolina banker, Sam Husbands, in the words of his onetime boss Jesse Jones, "knows more about banks than any man in the U.S." He also knows a lot about what goes on in Washington. FRB is backing a bill in Congress which would give the board greater regulatory powers over bank holding companies that control more than 15% of the stock of an operating bank. Once Transamerica's holdings in Bank of America are reduced to 11.1%, it could argue that FRB should not be concerned with Transamerica even though the 11.1% might...
...large body of progressive legislation recommended in the State of the Union speech, Congress passed a housing slum clearance bill, extended rent controls, increased the minimum wage, and (on the last day) approved a farm subsidy bill. An expanded social security program and a federal aid to education bill are expected to be ready early in January. The rest of the Fair Deal proposals were ignored or talked to death; a few were honestly defeated...