Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since its germ was first proposed by Secretary Marshall at Harvard last June, took into account the use of Western Europe's last unexpended cash & credits, and the possibility of aid from other sources. But it frankly recognized that the U.S. would have to pay most of the bill. Its main points...
...time General Wedemeyer had finished, most committeemen seemed convinced. Committee Chairman Styles Bridges promptly wrote into the interim aid bill a $20 million appropriation for China, as "a gesture to show Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government that we are interested," settled for $18 million in the final version (see The Congress). The State Department had already admitted that the U.S. is prepared to grant export licenses to China for U.S.-made arms and ammunition.*For almost-forgotten China, it was not much. But it was a start...
...Bill of Particulars. The stockholder group was formed by plump, pink-faced Clendenin J. Ryan, 42, well-heeled grandson of the late great financier, Thomas Fortune Ryan. Allied with Ryan were Allan Kirby, financial angel of Railroader Robert R. Young, and Robert McKinney, a cousin of Bob Young and a veteran of his proxy battles. Ryan, a heavy investor in l.T. & T. (he now owns over 100,000 shares), was aroused when he failed to get a representative on l.T. & T.'s board. He declared...
Radio Daily's blast at radio repairmen set up an immediate echo. Last week New York City Councilman Stanley Isaacs threatened to introduce a long-contemplated bill forcing radio repairmen (like plumbers, electricians, etc.) to pass municipal license tests. And membership in the two-month-old Associated Radio Servicemen of N.Y.. Inc. (whose pious principle is "to see that the public gets a good deal") hopped from...
Playwright Lavery-hoping to rouse men's minds by tickling their ribs-has written a comedy about a roughneck (Hollywood's Anthony Quinn, making his first Broadway bow) who hijacks his way into Congress. To attract attention there, he introduces a bill calling for World Government. Soon he really believes in the bill, and is using gangster tactics to get it passed. That is the end of him as a Congressman, but the beginning...