Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Teachers Oath law appeared permanently written into the State Statutes yesterday when the House of Representatives refused to reconsider the repeal bill, which it defeated last Thursday, by a vote...
...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...
...close was the voting yesterday that Speaker Christian A. Herter '15 took an unusual step in having himself recorded in favor of reconsideration. The repeal bill prevailed on a voice vote, failed on a standing count, 83-77, before a roll call was ordered...
Once again Representative Ralph Clampit lead a vain effort from the floor to push the bill through to the Senate. He was supported by Representative John Vaughan of Belmont who cried that the law is a "wedge in our Constitution into which the moisture will creep, and in no time mildew will rot out our rights and the foundations of our government...
...conclusive defeat of the repeal bill yesterday was the fourth of a series of reversals for opposition forces of the oath. Two years ago the law narrowly escaped erasure from the books when, after passing in both the House and the Senate, it met the veto of Governor Hurley...