Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as completed in conference, the defense bill...
Approved last week by the Senate Military Affairs Committee was a bill authorizing the U. S. War Department to forbid Army officers to marry during their first three years of active service. Reason: second lieutenants draw only $125 a month, should keep their minds on the Army. Said Brigadier General Lorenzo Dow Gasser, testifying for the bill: ". . . We propose to exempt the present West Point class that graduates this June. I understand commitments have been made...
...House, Virginia's Clifton Woodrum was chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee which handled the last several WPA bills. He was one of those who cut $150,000,000 from the deficiency bill...
...behalf of itself and all its members"), as well as against President William Leader and three other union officers, Apex had to prove that union officials actually directed the strike. Apex's President William Meyer testified that after strikers had beat him, swart, big-beaked Bill Leader appeared and asked : "Now will you sign a closed shop agreement...
...Leading off for the defense, Bill Leader conceded that no more than 100 of Apex's 2,500 employes attended the meeting at which a strike was authorized. (Long after the strike, Apex signed a closed-shop contract when the union proved that it had enrolled a majority...