Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keeping with the strictly economic nature of aid under Point Four, the proposed bill is entitled "International Technical Cooperation Act of 1949," it calls for $35,000,000 the first year, to be used through the U.N. and in direct loans of money and assistance to poor countries throughout the world. Most of the funds would probably be distributed through the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council...
...Heat's On. Once before this year, the President had gotten another oldtime New Dealer-Federal Trade Commissioner John Carson-past a balky committee, by turning on some purely political heat. He decided to try again with Olds, sent for National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. On Harry Truman's orders, Boyle dispatched telegrams to every Democratic national and state committeeman, governor and mayor in the U.S.. told them Olds's defeat would be "a victory for the power lobbyists and the Republican Party," and instructed them to whip their Senators into line...
Last week the State Department let it be known that the gesture was not quite so generous as it had seemed. After turning down her request for aid to China, the Government-while waiting for China's dust to settle-found time to send her a $9,002 bill for airplane transportation. She paid promptly. When she travels to Formosa this month, it will be by commercial airliner...
...Tokyo audiences, the Ainus only pretended to kill the bear and drink his blood. They shared the bill with a bebop band and a nicely undressed chorus. "Tokyo," murmured one bush-bearded, 74-year-old aborigine eying the chorus, "is the best part of Japan; Hokkaido is too far out in the sticks...
...House drafted a bill allowing 90 percent fixed parity, which was rejected by the Senate in favor of the flexible scheme. During the 1948 campaign, President Truman promised the farmers to do everything possible to maintain a fixed parity based on some prior period of high farm prices. It is now the problem of the Administration to secure legislation which will make good these promises...