Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern Exposure. In Tallahassee, Fla., the state legislature received a bill prohibiting misuse of the Confederate flag after Tennis Player Laura Lou Kunnen showed up on the courts with the flag on the seat of her shorts...
...House, 251-54, passed a bill to create an independent, three-man federal commission to think up ways of helping the ailing, coal industry. Complained Iowa Republican H. R. Gross: "No matter how thick or thin you slice it, this creates a new agency when we already are surfeited with them...
...House Veterans' Affairs Committee unanimously approved a veterans' pension reform bill that could save the taxpayers an estimated $12 billion over the next four decades.The Administration-backed bill adopts a sliding-scale principle for determining how big a pension an elderly or partially disabled veteran may draw; the bigger his income from other sources, the smaller his pension. But, fearful of annoying veterans' organizations, the committee balked at an Administration proposal to count social security payments as income. The reforms apply only to future cases: no veteran now drawing a federal pension will get a cent less...
...make a statesman out of me," rumbled Tennessee's Democratic Congressman Ross Bass on the House floor last week. "Let's talk politics." Rarely has Ross Bass or any other Congressman come closer to expressing the will of the House. Under debate was a wheat-subsidy bill-and the outcome was 100% political, unalloyed by the slightest pretense of statesmanship...
Swinging through the humming steel towns of Pennsylvania last week, TIME Correspondent Jack Olsen reported: "A reporter going in to interview the steelworkers about baseball's Pirates would have a snap. The men devote their off-hour attention to the fact that Harvey Haddix is pitching or Bill Virdon hit a homer. But when it comes to the steel labor negotiations, they do not know what is going on. They do not understand the issues. They do not know what they want. They have a vague idea that their pension plan needs strengthening. Some of them talk about shorter...