Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glowering in his seat across the aisle, just as he had last December when the House brought the original Black-Connery Bill to the floor only to amend it to death and bury it by recommitment, sat the most implacable foe that wages-&-hours legislation has in the House: Georgia's bushy-headed Edward Eugene ("Goober") Cox. Mrs. Norton's revised bill provided a universal floor for wages beginning at 25? an hour, to be stepped up within three years to 40?. It provided a ceiling for the workweek beginning at 44 hours, to be lowered within...
This time Mrs. Norton was able to keep the bill from death by amendment. The few minor amendments adopted exempted from the provisions of the bill agricultural workers, employes of any branch of the fishing industry, of weekly or semiweekly country newspapers with circulations of 3,000 or less. California's Charles Kramer relieved his colleagues' tension for a moment by offering an amendment exempting child actors from the child labor provisions. Dubbed the Shirley Temple Amendment, it was promptly adopted. But the tension returned as the bill approached its real test, and then as the first fateful...
Much ado about nothing also appeared the trouble that the House had taken in perfecting the bill. The Southern bloc in the Senate, which is determined that no bill shall pass which does not provide a wage differential for the South, agreed to a cloak room compromise...
...avoid a fight on the Senate floor it was agreed that the bill should be rewritten in conference. Meanwhile, Speaker Bankhead deferred naming the House conferees until this week. Thus it was assured that the compromise reached in conference should be dumped back into the House and Senate just before adjournment, when Congressmen will be too tired to fight hard or argue long...
...Bill and Alben don't know what they are talking about," snorted the Vice President. "Tell you what, Nate. I'll bet you $100 we don't adjourn by May 10, another hundred we don't adjourn by May 20, another on June 1, another on June 10. And just to give you $100, I'll bet on June...