Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...husband's chest welled up something which he wanted to get off to all the People. He announced that he would fill Mrs. Roosevelt's engagement, using a national radio hookup. Before he left Washington last week, newshawks knew what was on his chest: the 1938 Tax Bill, still lying unsigned, un-vetoed at the White House...
...bill, he regretted to say, Congress had flouted two "very fundamental principles" of Government: 1) In alleviating for small businesses the tax on undistributed profits, it had reopened the loophole for Big Business to avoid taxes. "The penalty for withholding dividends from stockholders is so small-only 2½ % at the most-that it is doubtful whether it will wholly eliminate the old tax avoidance practices of the past." 2) "This new bill wholly eliminates the progressive tax principle with respect to ... capital profits ; it taxes small capital profits and large capital profits at exactly the same rate...
WASHINGTON--The Senate today struck proposed shackles on the New Deal utility program from the recovery -relief bill on assurance from President Roosevelt that no federal aid will be given to erect public power plants unless and until private firms reject "fair" offers for municipal purchase of their facilities...
WASHINGTON--The Senate tonight added $175,000,000 to the works relief slice of the pending pump-priming bill and voted a $125,000,000 "dole" to the needy after President Roosevelt had warned of a threatened crisis in unemployment this summer and demanded a free hand to combat it. Attacking widespread Senate agitation to ear-mark the $3,247,500,000 recovery-relief fund as a safeguard against its use by administration for political reprisals, the President wrote Sen. Alva Adams, D., Colo., floor manager of the measure, insisting on a flexible appropriation...
...pointed out that both Houses have already given approval to three of the main points, namely the executive assistants, the Department of Public Welfare, and the power of the President to rearrange agencies, Pettee placed part of the blame for the Bill's defeat on "the over-optimism which caused the Administration to insist on the whole Bill or nothing...