Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Embarrassing Present. The prime Republican business of the new year would be to get swift passage of a tax-reduction bill. Last week House Speaker Joe Martin predicted that Congress would "send the White House a tax present some time in January." The present he had in mind was the bill introduced in December by Minnesota's persistent Harold Knutson, whose two previous bills were vetoed by Harry Truman. The new bill would cut taxes some $5.6 billion, by reducing rates and increasing personal exemptions...
Other measures high on the Republican agenda were an anti-lynching bill and a bill to extend rent control (with the 15% "voluntary" increase), which expires in February. Universal military training was also due to come up, but its chances of passage looked slim. Even slimmer were the chances that Republican leaders would take any steps to add more economic controls. Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said he would introduce a standby meat-rationing bill. Senator Taft is on record for a meat-rationing bill-if needed-but only a severe meat shortage would bring about sufficient support...
Even middle-roading Assemblymen thought this was too strong. The government offered a compromise figure of 125 billion. M. Schuman, in effect, issued an ultimatum: take it or leave it. He forced a vote of confidence on the issue. M. Schuman won; his bill was passed. On each of five separate amendments, the Assembly voted for the Premier. His majority was not large, but it never fell below 33 votes...
...Reporter Breslin stood at the side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...
Cassandra-like prophecies proved right again Saturday night. Plummeting from the basketball Zenith that eluded it by so slim a margin in Tuesday's Columbia overtime heart stopper. Bill Barclay's up-and-down-again team dropped a disappointing 57 to 45 decision in Cornell's Barton Hall...