Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BILL McCoRMicK...
Inch, Ell. In Cleveland, Mrs. Jessie Salsburg graciously allowed a bus driver to use her front yard faucet to fill his steaming radiator. All the drivers on the route followed suit, in three months ran the Salsburg water bill...
...invited the filing of thousands of portal-pay suits by unions. If these were valid, even in part, "the realities of the industrial world" meant that many businesses would be lamed, some crippled. Through tax rebates and cost-plus contracts, the Government would be nicked for much of the bill...
...needed some reassurance. All week long the Democrats had been snickering as Republicans lambasted each other over the 20% income-tax cut promised by bullheaded Harold Knutson during the campaign. Knutson had tried to bulldoze his Ways and Means Committee into endorsing his bill, only to have Michigan's Albert Engel rebel. Engel's plan: double exemptions to help the low-income group. The fracas had ruffled the G.O.P. leadership itself when Illinois' Leo Allen, Chairman of the Rules Committee, threw in a plan of his own. Allen would give the little taxpayer...
Ever since he grabbed office four weeks ago, he had been talking up the good points of his white-primary bill. He had pointed out that the bill was not undemocratic ; it simply kept the Negro from hurting his own cause by voting. But when the State Senate held a public hearing on the measure, Hummon heard from all sorts of people he'd never suspected were against...