Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around him say. Bureau Chief Robert Elson may take over from there, filling in the outline with information he picked up at a background conference in the State Department. Each reporter "sings" in turn: Frank McNaughton, who watches Congress like a hawk, to predict the fate of an important bill; Anatole Visson to relate some unusual doings among the foreign embassies; Frances Henderson to recount the latest news in atomic science...
Labor looked at the new Congress and shuddered. Would its old foes now translate the Republican sweep as a mandate for restriction of unions? One answer came in a hurry. Minnesota's Senator Joe Ball said he would introduce a bill to outlaw the closed shop, which he called "the most illiberal thing in our industrial picture." He and many other Republicans were on record for revision of the Wagner Act, to equalize employers' rights with union rights...
There was the question of the La Follette-Monroney reorganization bill, passed by the 79th Congress, which reduced the old hodgepodge of 81 Congressional committees to 15 in the Senate, 19 in the House. The 80th Congress, however, was not bound to go through with this streamlining. Many would prefer the old committee system, because there were more chairmanships to go around. A fight was due over that...
...afraid; he is a man who has the confidence of his friends. Once when President Calvin Coolidge asked which legislator was in charge of a bill in the House and learned that it was "Joseph," Coolidge snapped: "Good. It will be done." Joe is a git-up-and-git, self-made, authentic small-town...
Starting today at left end is Bill Fitz, at left tackle Kiever, t left guard Mroz, at center Grady of Loos, at right guard I'owell, at right tackle Middendorf, at right end Bresnahan, and Harrison, Farrell, Wilson, and Grant in the backfield...