Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against reciprocal tariffs, the Court bill, Reorganization, the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Moratorium, permanent CCC, Wages-&-Hours, AAA II, both the 1937 and 1938 Relief bills. He explains his opposition mostly on grounds of economy, but he voted to override the President's veto of the 1936 bonus bill, the biggest Treasury raid in Congressional history. His fellow Republicans value him not as a legislator but as an oratorical shock trooper. Imposing, hawk-nosed, witty, a voluptuous lover of words, Congressman Short is willing to talk on almost anything, sometimes does so memorably...
...Townsend Plan vote. "Buyer" was the Republican candidate for Governor, blue-blooded Leverett Saltonstall. "Seller" was William H. McMasters, 64, of Cambridge, who looks something like old Dr. Francis E. Townsend. Published "price": a promise in Mr. Saltonstall's platform to make "an earnest effort to have this bill [Townsend General Welfare Act*] brought before Congress at the earliest possible moment." Though the Townsend Plan is officially cold-shouldered by the Administration...
...Army team itself. Captain Bill Wood, Army's new head coach, left the Academy yesterday afternoon with his squad of 37 men. As in the case of the late lamented Ithacans, the Cadets will spend the day before the game at the Belmont Country Club...
...Military tackle group is really their strong point. Litozo, at right, weighs in at 203, and Stella, at left, tips the balances at 211. Even the substitutes are both experienced and beefy, as is most everybody connected with the Army. On the defense Coach Bill Wood used both the five and the six men line at different times against Columbia...
Only four lettermen return this year: Captain Dud Talbot, Walt Kernan, Bob Stevens, and Vince Richards. One of the key positions left vacant is the stroke position held down by Spike Chace last year. Bill Rowe, pacesetter for the 1938 Jayvees is a likely candidate...