Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Casually imbedded in an innocent-looking editorial a few days ago, appeared a suggestion that tile Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in the light of changing times. Answering critics of the proposed New Deal bill for the registration of firearms the Tribune says: "Another how! has arisen from those who point to Article II of the Bill of Rights forbidding infringement of the right... to bear arms. May we remind such objectors that this constitutional provision was adopted ... When pioneer conditions required that the householder become his own policeman? An insistence on its literal interpretation is shown...
...Metropolitan's current bill, courtesy of Paramount, blends a musical and a drama into a thoroughly interesting program. "Cocoanut Grove" deals with the difficulties of a band-leader (Fred MacMurray) in getting a mate for himself and a job for the boys. The latter is taken care of when he lands in the Grove--an inaccurate replica of the Ambassador's famous ballroom--and the former when he wins the hand of Harriet Hilliard. A plot like this calls for strong support, and this is not lacking. Eve Arden and Ben Blue do an excellent burlesque of ballroom dancing...
According to the New York Times, Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week decided to renew his efforts to get Congress to pass his Reorganization Bill this session-on the theory that the results of the Florida primaries last fortnight would make it sure to pass. True or false, the report and the fact that it was generally credited were in themselves indications that the President was functioning in top form. Improved by: 1) his eight-day fishing trip, and 2) his confidence that Congress was again in a tractable frame of mind, he breezed through a week including everything from Hell...
...director of the Navy's War Plans Divisions. Captain Royal Ingersoll last winter went to England to exchange data about Naval building with the British Admiralty. At House hearings on the Big Navy Bill, this prompted talk of a secret alliance between England and the U. S. Last week. Franklin Roosevelt upped 54-year-old Captain Ingersoll to a rear admiralty. His job when confirmed by the Senate': command of the Sixth Cruiser Division, at San Pedro...
Last week Kentucky's rangy, long-faced Representative Fred Moore Vinson rose in the House to put the finishing touches on a job that has kept him sweating since last November, when he started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through...