Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alben Barkley of Kentucky sat quietly in his Majority Leader chair on the Senate floor one day last week looking well contented. The great debate on the Relief bill was under way and he thought he knew how the voting would go. It would be close, but Alben Barkley repeatedly assured the White House that he had lined up five more votes than necessary to insert Senator McKellar's amendment to raise the total of $725,000,000 appropriated by the bill (the House figure) to $875,000,000, the figure desired by the Administration. So sure of himself...
...satisfaction Senator Barkley did get before the Relief bill finally passed out of his hands to conference with the House. To Senator Hatch's amendments strengthening the House provisions against Politics-in-Relief, he added a clause making it illegal for any person to solicit campaign money from any Government employe, local, State or Federal, any part of whose pay comes from a Congressional appropriation. This was in memory of the Federal-aid highway men with whom Governor "Happy" Chandler so bitterly fought Mr. Barkley for Kentucky's nomination last summer...
...show the French the new plane, was turned down because of Army objections; 2) Mr. Bullitt appealed to Franklin Roosevelt, who reversed the Army decision; 3) General Arnold signed the permit for French inspection of the plane on orders from the White House. Immediate result: preparation of a bill to give military authorities sole discretion in opening U. S. aircraft facilities to foreign purchasers...
...same time, Hicks said that he would ignore the defl thrown at him by Thomas Dorgan, father of the Teachers' Oath Bill, who demands Hicks' dismissal from Harvard. Dorgan, an ex-representative now referred to as a "legislative agent," had requested Hicks to debate him on Communism and had offered to rent Langdell Hall for the proceedings, with gate receipts to charity...
...occurred in the heavier weights. It was caused by the fact that lanky "Bunny" Barnes has gained about ten pounds, throwing him out of the 155 pound class to wrestle in a heavier weight. Pete Illman, captain of his freshman team, will fill the weight Barnes has left. Bill Daughaday defeated Barnes in a trial match and Barnes defeated Tudor Gardiner which leaves the 165 and 175 pound weights to be decided between Barnes and Daughaday. Boston will as usual wrestle unlimited, with Gardiner as alternate...