Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...libel and a deep hurt to me, and to prove how mistaken you are, I'm enclosing a lovely, authentic portrait of me done in oils by Bill Scott, Minneapolis Times-Tribune artist...
...takes place on Capitol Hill, in two scenes: 1) in Mr. Doughton's Ways & Means Committee, where a new tax bill is drafted; 2) in Mr. Harrison's Finance Committee, where it is polished up. Act III takes place at the nearest Internal Revenue Bureau office, with citizens waiting in long lines to pay increased taxes...
...Warm Springs, Ga., for Thanksgiving I. No sooner had he carved the turkey than he gathered the press, told them that he would pass the tax buck to Congress. Those sterling fellows, he intimated, must decide for themselves and the U. S. whether: 1) to pass a new tax bill, which in an election year is similar to harakiri; or 2) simply to go on borrowing money, thereby creating a larger deficit and running the public debt beyond the statutory $45,000,000,000 limit...
...faithful Pat Harrison had given one of his best performances. Out of the White House he had stepped, dragged lustily on a banana-sized cigar, said: "Government receipts are making such a showing as to gladden our hearts. ... It may be that we can get along without a tax bill...
...Captain Bill Coleman is a fixture at right defense, the promising Junior Sherm Gray, is being groomed to fill the other defensive slot. Bob Gorham and Greeley Summers are next in line for the blue-line jobs...