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Word: billing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (in five minutes) Senator Sheppard's bill to outlaw political use of Relief and other Government funds; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Received from its Rivers & Harbors Committee an approved revival of the bill to resume digging the $200,000,000 ship canal across northern Florida (begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Passed a bill extending the life of FHA to June 30, 1941, raising from three billions to four the volume of mortgages the agency may insure; sent it to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Passed the House bill appropriating $100,000,000 more for WPA until June 30, instead of $150.000,000 more as demanded by President Roosevelt. With pain and blushes Majority Leader Barkley abandoned the President's figure in the face of certain defeat, while the President transferred leadership temporarily to Florida's opportunist Senator Pepper. The bill went to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Apr. 24, 1939 | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

...Senator Connally of Texas introduced a war tax bill scaling up to 80% of private incomes, 77% on undistributed corporate profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Actions & Reactions | 4/24/1939 | See Source »

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