Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile a committee of the House, where eight consecutive appropriation bills had been cut symbolically but not substantially below Budget figures, voted to undo all that economy with a farm bill to provide parity payments $244,098,376 above Budget figures. A $400,000,000 log-rolling bee between farm Congressmen and WPAdvocates hove into view. And the World War Veterans' Legislation Committee prepared to add heavily to the Government's overhead, to ask regular pensions of $40 a month for 65-year-old World Warriors-a cost of $31,000,000 a year to start with...
Year ago Franklin Roosevelt's plan for reorganizing the U. S. Government was beaten in a bitter legislative battle amid cries of "Dictator!" from Father Coughlin and Publisher Frank Gannett. Last week another reorganization bill passed-with no national hullabaloo, but after a right smart fight in Congress...
...Bill. Husky, leathery Lindsay Carter Warren, Congressman from Washington, N. C., more than half won the fight by the way he drafted this year's bill. He listed the points on which last year's bill was attacked and simply left most of them out this time. He gave the President power to alter the setup of all executive agencies-except certain ones, specifically listed. (Important exceptions in the bill as passed by the Senate: Civil Service, Communications, Power, Trade, Interstate Commerce, Securities & Exchange, Employes' Compensation, Maritime, Tariff Commissions, Army Engineers Corps, Coast Guard, NLRB, Board...
...short, Lindsay Warren made Reorganization, model 1939, a good deal less drastic than Reorganization 1938. He also made it politically possible-just barely possible-to get the bill passed...
...taking his time, but it still swings. When Krupa was playing his theater tour last summer, he had two kids with him who really did a marvelous job: they danced to fast tunes, but with all the case and grace of a couple of cats. That's what makes Bill Robinson's dancing what it is: marvelous technique--so much that he can just relax and jump right along with the tune. It the jitterbugs will learn this trick in dancing just as the white bands have to learn it is playing, and will stay off the stand...