Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long avoid the crucial issues of labor and taxes. At week's end John L. Lewis sharpened one of them still further when negotiations over a new coal contract broke up without results. With such an example before him, the President might well convince himself that the pending bill did not overly disturb the rights of labor. Besides, Congress would probably pass it over his veto. But a tax cut was directly up to Truman. The Republicans did not have the votes to beat a veto there...
Last week the President also: ¶ Sent to Congress the draft of a bill permitting the U.S. to train & arm her sister republics of the Western Hemisphere, a step long urged by the War & Navy departments, vigorously opposed by some factions of the State Department...
...three days, Colorado's Eugene Millikin had been on his feet defending the income-tax reduction bill that his Senate Finance Committee had whipped into shape. Armed with a huge loose-leaf notebook crammed with statistics, he made his replies to colleagues' questions short, sure and pithy. He turned back Democratic efforts to postpone the tax bill, to nationalize the community-property provision of some states, to raise individual exemptions. Millikin's able defense of the bill ended in complete victory. The Senate passed it, 52 to 34, without amendment...
Almost simultaneously, the labor-bill conferees composed their last differences. Ohio's Bob Taft wore a broad grin. The bill had emerged substantially as it had been fashioned in the Senate...
...Heard that the Armed Services Committee had agreed on a bill to coordinate and unify the direction of the armed forces. The bill carefully stipulated that the services were not to be merged. ¶ Chuckled over North Carolina's William Umstead, who suggested an old English test for D.C. drivers charged with drunken driving: "Not drunk is he who from the floor...