Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in 1918 Frank Bacon played the lovable, lying, drunken Bill Jones, but we doubt if he were any more expert in his portrayal than Mr. Stone. At any rate, in an age of smooth, streamlined productions it is a pleasure to be presented with a comedy the charm of which is as much due to its atmosphere of antiquity as to its content...
...most eminent caller was Ambassador to France ''Bill" Bullitt, one of the most trusted of his foreign emissaries. Unlike other Presidents, who frequently filled diplomatic posts to repay political debts to party fat-cats whom they were glad to have out of the way, Franklin Roosevelt has stationed two of his favored advisers, Joe Kennedy and Bill Bullitt, in important embassies abroad. Last week Mr. Kennedy in London advised Democracies and Dictators to learn to get on together in the same world...
...Chicago, the Bill Posters & Billers Union (A. F. of L. affiliate) last week refused to handle Republican campaign material...
...month ago, is the little Latin American republic of Panama. Disturbed because neighboring Costa Rica suddenly abandoned plans to ratify a pact settling a long-disputed 150-mile border between the two States, Panama's President, Dr. Juan Demostenes Arosemena, last week signed a hurriedly drafted bill providing $1,000,000 for national defense. Hitherto, defense has been an unknown item in Panama's budget. Most of the money will be used to fortify the northern border, disputed since 1904 and over which Costa Rica and Panama fought a fierce, undeclared jungle war in 1921, which was halted...
...companies unanimously asked for a flat rate because a sliding scale would greatly increase their work and actuarial complications. Though Mr. Pink warned that "any fixed rate ... is bound to be unfair over a long period of years," Governor Lehman last April signed the Piper-O'Brien Bill establishing a flat rate of 5% (4.8% to those who pay in advance). And since New Yorkers hold nearly a fifth of the $109,572,000,000 U. S. policies in force and since the companies obviously cannot charge different interest rates in different States, as New York goes so goes...