Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speed-Up. Despite Citizen Washburn's opinion, Congress had its busiest week to date. The House passed Harold Knutson's tax reduction bill, thus immeasurably speeding up a final determination of the tax question. It also shouted through a cut-rate Labor-Federal Security Appropriation bill, over attempts to scuttle the U.S. Conciliation Service, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the NLRB. The House joined the Senate in extending a modified Second War Powers Act until June 30, ending Selective Service, and appropriating $9,000,000 to help Mexico fight its foot-&-mouth disease epidemic...
Anti-Nature. But the floor show of the week (which Citizen Washburn apparently missed) featured Senate debate on a bill authorizing the District of Columbia Commissioners to institute daylight-saving time in Washington...
...seems to me that we should pursue the course that the God of Nature has prescribed. ... But here come the members of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia, and like Joshua of old, they want to bid the sun and the moon to stand still. ... If the bill passes ... I will be tempted to insert in the Washington newspapers an advertisement-'Lost, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, one golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered-it is lost forever...
...bill passed...
Barnaby also had high praise for Bill Wightman, who "refused to lose" to a highly experienced Navy opponent, finally wearing him down to take the match...