Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doones. Lindsay Warren won his bill's crucial battle on the House floor with one brief, effective literary allusion. When Representative Kleberg of Texas tried to require that the President's reorganization be approved by a positive vote of Congress (rather than subject to a negative veto), Mr. Warren asked his colleagues: "Have you forgotten the story of Lorna Doone...
Last week in the Senate, Lindsay Warren's good friend Jimmy Byrnes of Spartanburg, S. C. took charge of the bill. "I'd rather have Jimmy Byrnes on my side than any other ten Senators," said Lindsay Warren, and the tribute was well earned. For two days a parliamentary battle was fought over the bill. At one point Senator Burt Wheeler of Montana succeeded in amending it to require both Houses' approval of every reorganization move by the President, by vote of 45-to-44. But after two days' smart maneuvering, Jimmy Byrnes got the amendment...
...confidence. Aged 49, he regards John Nance Garner as "a second daddy." For all 14 years his capital residence has been a room in the modest Washington Hotel next door to Mr. Garner's. Lindsay Warren did not consult the White House when he drafted the Reorganization bill. The New Deal's leader in the Senate, "Dear Alben" Barkley, even stepped aside in the sharp Senate battle, leaving the generalship to Jimmy Byrnes.* Thus: Reorganization, 1939, was neither written nor passed under New Deal guidance. As enacted it stands as the first major accomplishment of the Garner "moderates...
Aside from the bleeding, dying and bereavement, one result of war is that while it impoverishes most people, some people make money out of it and a few make a lot of money. Last week no less than 50 U. S. Senators, enough to pass any bill, revived the idea of "taxing the profits...
...price, such levies would take away incentive for U. S. businessmen to help win a war. One of the 50 signers (Iowa's Guy Mark Gillette) said he expected nobody to take a confiscatory proposal seriously. And of the 50, only ten professed to have read the bill in full before they signed...