Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in four columns of type, the capital's sturdily independent La Prensa unofficially summarized the bill's purported highlights. According to La Prensa's version, the bill would: 1) set up a government registry for scientists, writers, painters, musicians and architects, and fix standards for their work; 2) set "cultural quotas" of space for Argentine material for newspapers, magazines, libraries and publishing houses...
Opponents cried that "the bill will let loose in our schools a reign of repression and fear." Undismayed, New York's legislature last April passed the Feinberg law, barring members of subversive groups from teaching. The State Board of Regents, which governs the public school system, was charged with enforcement...
Before the week was out they were paying attention to big Bill Betger, 26, a left-handed policeman from San Francisco who patrols the city's waterfront at night and golfs on the city's jampacked Harding course by day. It was rare for a southpaw to do so well in tournament play, and he did not get to the finals without incident. In the fourth round Policeman Betger graciously conceded a 12-in. putt to his rival Lewis North of Denver (for a halve), gave the latter's ball a swipe with his putter. Cried North...
Last week, the Senate Banking & Currency Committee decided it was time to lock the RFC's job-placement door. It approved a bill that would bar RFC officials who have lending discretion from accepting jobs with RFC borrowers for two years after loans are made. Speedy congressional passage was likely...
Last week, it looked as if Bill Richards, now 41, had stumbled into a gold mine. On Cape Cod, where he farms 300 once-scrubby, sand-swept acres by intensive irrigation, neighbors call him "the broccoli king." This summer, barring a hurricane, he will harvest close to $200,000 worth of broccoli and lettuce from a farm which, by Texas standards, is hardly more than a pea patch. He will probably gross as much again from the sale of irrigation pipes and pumps to farmers who want to adopt his system...