Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speech even approaching dissent came from Delegate Dragolyub Yovanovic, recently expelled from Tito's puppet Peasant Party. Yovanovic said the bill was "perfect"-but that since it affected everybody in Yugoslavia it should first be submitted to a plebiscite. Then he too voted for immediate adoption of a measure which brought full socialization to the westernmost point it has yet reached...
...football's best one-man team folded up last week. For eleven games, with little help or relief, 172-lb. Bill Dudley of the Pittsburgh Steelers had run around, under & over big 225-pounders. He was not fast, either, but with his jitterbug's change-of-pace, he became the National League's No. 1 ground-gainer (604 yards). He was also the team's sparkplug, did the kicking and passing, led the league in pass interceptions (10). Said he, retiring from pro football after ripping a cartilage in his knee: "I know my limitations...
...attack is shrewd, 197-lb. Sid Luckman, 29, who does most of the thinking and all the passing. He leads the league with 1,826 yards gained by passes. His ball-carrying backfield mates are virtually middle-aged men (average: 28)-shifty halfbacks Hugh Gallarneau and Dante Magnani, fullback Bill ("Bullet") Osmanski...
...slickest of U.S. slick magazines was born-along with baseball, Buffalo Bill, the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York's first tattoo parlor and Carry Nation-100 years ago. This week, to show how gracefully it had grown old, it unveiled a centenary self-portrait that managed to appear both candid and flattering. The 348-page Christmas annual that came from the presses of swank, sophisticated Town & Country was the heaviest (2 Ibs. 11½ oz.) issue in its history. It was also the richest, with around $250,000 worth...
...keep the university going and growing since 1921, President Bunnell has made regular campaigns on the floor of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau. Last week he had a more urgent plea. West Coast shipping strikes had cut off supplies, reduced the university cooks to a bill of fare of soup, spaghetti, and milk from the experimental dairy. Warned President Bunnell: unless the university got quick relief, its students would be "freezing and starving...