Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pundit Nicholas Murray Butler, which declared Senator O'Mahoney had "made his name memorable through an influential and guiding part in framing one of the now classic documents in the constitutional history of the U. S.- the adverse report of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the bill for the re-organization of the Federal judiciary." Meanwhile, University of Chicago gave an honorary doctorate of laws to liberal Justice Harlan Fiske Stone...
...year-old president, William Harold Cowley, crusaded as editor of the Dartmouth against class fights and other hallowed horseplay, induced the college to re-study and eventually change its curriculum. His classmates voted that he had "done most for Dartmouth," was "most likely to succeed." From Dartmouth, husky Bill Cowley, who had taken a crack at newspapering and industrial personnel work before graduation, went to the Bell Telephone Laboratories and then to University of Chicago, where he had charge of vocational guidance and placement. Since 1929 he has been head of the personnel division of the Bureau of Educational Research...
Roving Prof (Tues. 7:45 p. m. NBC-Red). Northwestern's peripatetic Bill McGovern in the second of a 5-week series on family life in the Orient. Subject : In a Buddhist Monastery...
...delighted to accede to the liquor industry's request to be taxed. Under the recent revenue bill the tax on distilled liquors is raised from $2 to $2.25 a gallon for spirits tax-paid after July 1. This horrified the retail liquor business because it meant that any dealer with large stocks tax-paid before July 1 would have a price advantage. So Congress was asked to add a 25? floor tax to such stocks to avoid demoralizing the price structure. Last week the Senate Finance Committee favorably reported the bill...
...Gave the Federal Power Commission authority over interstate sales of natural gases. The Senate passed, with minor changes, a House bill giving FPC the right (not provided by the Public Utility Holding Co. Act) to declare unlawful any wholesale gas rates not "just & reasonable...