Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BILL WILLIAMS...
...Woollcott to talk on one of his programs; and 3) his political philosophy. His philosophy: that politicians are not supposed to evolve their own ideas but to evolve compromise programs. He thinks legislation should be written by experts, steered by politicians. In the Illinois Senate he introduced only one bill, providing for a legislative council to map the work of the next session. At the moment he is specifically advocating more civil service, "perfecting" the National Labor Relations Board, "birth control" of bills in Congress, giving ex-Presidents seats in the Senate. He also wants to abolish...
...Broadway record since topped only by Abie's Irish Rose (2,532 performances). Tobacco Road (2,050). Experienced theatregoers worried little whether Lightnin' would date, knowing that it already dated when first written. For old as folk drama is the tale of warm-hearted Lightnin' Bill Jones, who loafs as chronically as Rip van Winkle, lies as outrageously as Tartarin of Tarascon. Typical whopper: how he drove a swarm of bees across a prairie in the dead of winter without losing...
...years was passed by Congress last June. Named for its introducer, Representative Walter Chandler of Memphis, the Chandler Act is actually the baby of the SEC, whose Chairman William O. Douglas was made a commissioner in recognition of a three-year study of corporate bankruptcies. One of Bill Douglas' assistants then was Samuel O. Clark Jr., a Yale lawyer of the type Douglas, a Yale law professor, likes. Last July therefore Chairman Douglas made 38-year-old Sam Clark director of SEC's new Reorganization Division...
...only regular who did not see service was Ken Booth, Harvard's bid for some kind of an "All" tackle and tailback Frank Foley but both are ready for service now. Mose Hallet filled in for him and played like he owned the post. For the scrubs guard Bill Coleman and wingback Ray Jones recently elvated to the "red-shirts," stood out. Jones passed to Win Jameson for the scrubs' lone tally...