Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cheers & Boos. For two days Congress waited for the President's decision on the labor bill. The day the message came, House & Senate galleries were packed, mostly with union sympathizers. In the House they cheered the veto message when it was read. Some Congressmen looked up and yelled "Boo" at the galleries. The vote in the House was quick and overwhelming: 331 to override (225 Republicans and 106 Democrats); 83 to sustain (11 Republicans, 71 Democrats and New York City's man of the Labor Party, Vito Marcantonio...
...Senate after that and the Senate unrolled an extraordinary show. First, Republican Whip Kenneth Wherry tried to get an agreement on a time to vote. But Oregon's dapper New Dealing Republican Wayne Morse, who had opposed the Taft-Hartley bill from the beginning, objected to any closing of debate. Republican Morse joined with Democrats Claude Pepper, Harley Kilgore, Glen Taylor to filibuster...
...decided (6-2) that the U.S. Government owns the oil-rich tidelands off the coast of California. Congress had once tried to decide the issue by awarding' all tidelands to the states (TIME, Aug. 5), but President Truman, vetoed the bill, to let the Supreme Court decide...
...Flowers, Please. After five months as assistant city editor, Aggie had beaten down most of the local staff's prejudices against women editors; in spite of her job* the staff liked her. Said Rewriteman Bill Kennedy, after Aggie Underwood took over the city desk as its boss last week: "Aggie's not a woman. She's a newspaperman. No one would dare send her flowers on this occasion. She'd throw 'em at whoever...
...most U.S. railroads, the Reed-Bulwinkle Bill was a long-sought boon. It would exempt them from the antitrust laws. The railroads could agree among themselves on rates, as long as they were approved by the ICC. But to a handful of Senators, the bill was a camel's nose beneath the tent of antitrust legislation. They feared the whole camel would soon be inside...