Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood of the nation had changed. When the House passed its drastic labor bill three weeks ago, the nation still feared another wrenching series of strikes in the 1946 pattern. But now the prospects for industrial peace were better than at any time since the war. The Senate, facing its own labor bill last week, considered the outlook...
...Tack. With the sense of crisis gone, maneuvering in the Senate took a new tack. Senator Bob Taft wanted a tough, omnibus bill he could dump as a single package on Harry Truman's desk. If the President vetoed it, that would be all right with Bob Taft. He knew what he wanted and he was all for putting Harry Truman on the spot. Meanwhile, Democrats moved heaven & earth to have the bill split up, and thus give the President a chance to sit squarely on the fence. Truman could then court labor's support by killing...
...there were some Republicans who saw no good in a needlessly punitive bill and no political gain in unnecessarily antagonizing labor. This group was not only composed of such G.O.P. mavericks as Oregon's Morse, Vermont's Aiken and New Hampshire's Tobey. It included such men as New York's Irving Ives, a labor relations expert and skilled parliamentary debater; Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith; and the co-leader of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg. They took a second look at the bill now under consideration...
...Bill Foster pitched a no-hitter, struck out 18 of the 23 men to face him, and hit a home run to boot, all of which gave Eliot a 15 to 0 inter-House baseball win over Lowell yesterday afternoon...
Home games with Yale will be tomorrow's bill of fare for the Freshman and Junior Varsity baseball teams, both contests being scheduled for 3 o'clock on Solders Field...