Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the propwash of the airport aid bill, Congress was riding with him. Items...
...first clear sign of a change in Democratic leadership signals came during a Senate-House conference meeting on the airport improvement bill. For three months, Oklahoma Democrat Mike Monroney, knowledgeable specialist in the jet age, had held out doggedly for the Senate's fat, $465 million airport-construction bill as opposed to the House's $297 million version. Then, one day last fortnight, influential Senator Monroney breezed into a committee session and recommended that the committee forget both bills, simply extend for two years the current airport aid of $63 million a year-only $6.000,000 more than...
...Senate and House conferees shaved .more than $1 billion and four years off the Senate version of the omnibus housing bill, agreed on a two-year, $1,375,400,000 appropriation in the hope that it would escape the veto...
...House rejected a compromise farm bill for higher wheat supports and restricted acreage, thus headed off a move to make the farm subsidy mess even worse...
...laws), headed a group of public-spirited New Yorkers (Fusionists) who successfully backed anti-Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained for a full century his reasoning and the wit that leavened his zeal; in Manhattan...