Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Senate debated his $1,500,000,000 Navy Expansion Bill, the President added a request for an additional $25,000,000 to provide for starting work on two more battleships-which would bring the total currently planned or under construction to nine...
...York's brisk, bouncing Representative John J.. O'Connor, elder brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner Basil O'Connor, led the House fight which killed the President's Reorganization Bill so enthusiastically that last week his picture adorned the cover of Social Justice. This paper is edited under the guidance of Father Charles Coughlin, whom Mr. O'Connor two years ago was promising to kick publicly from the Capitol to the White House. Last week, the Reorganization fight over, Franklin Roosevelt invited Mr. O'Connor to the White House...
Unlike its predecessor which the House voted down last December, the bill which Mr. O'Connor's committee met to consider last week had the support of both C. I. O. and A. F. of L. It called for a minimum wage of 25? an hour, rising 5? an hour annually for three years to a 40? an hour minimum in 1941; and a maximum hour schedule of 44 hours a week, reduced two hours a year to 40 hours in 1940. What the bill lacked was a regional differential to permit Southern industry to continue reflecting climatic...
...days of celebrations. Proud Ghegs from the north, with their trousered Moslem women, bare-foot Tosks from the south forgot their feuds as they guzzled each other's mulberry brandy and coarse wine from bulging goatskin flasks. When enthusiasm lagged on the second day, the Government footed the bill for mass weddings for 150 couples and the goatskins were filled & refilled...
Present in the audience were Bacteriologist-Author Paul de Kruif (Men Against Death, The Fight for Life), State Representative Edward P. Saltiel, who sponsored the Illinois premarriage syphilis-test bill passed last year. In the play, Representative Saltiel is the hero of two scenes laid in the State Legislature. Outside in the theatre's lobby, the Chicago Board of Health had set up a testing station offering free syphilis tests. Some 15 first-nighters stepped...