Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Favorably reported to the Senate by Wyoming's mild Senator Harry H. Schwartz, member of the Senate Committee on Claims, was S. 3046, A BILL For the relief of Richard D. Krenik, a farmer of Graham, Wash., awarding $450 to Farmer Krenik because WPA blasters working near his farm, on the Puyallup River Flood Relief Project No. 632, did with their dynamite so addle and jelly 250 turkey eggs in his incubators and under his hens that only 40 hatched, and of these 40 poults, themselves none too strong, 20 died soon after...
...would appear from the first primary held since the defeat of President Roosevelt's Reorganization Bill that the dike is beginning to cave...
...whatever degree of White House partiality was shown by the facts that Assistant Attorney General Joe Keenan journeyed to Illinois to speak on his behalf and that pink-whiskered Senator James Hamilton Lewis gave him his public support. Candidate Lucas, who voted against Roosevelt on the Wages-&-Hours Bill, parried by sticking to the local issue of "Throw out the Bosses." In last week's balloting, as early reports came in from the metropolitan districts, Candidate Igoe rolled up an impressive lead of 70,000 votes which began to dwindle as downstate returns poured in. Final count...
This novel argument the Commander used in presenting to the House a bill to confer Palestine citizenship upon "oppressed European Jews" who might benefit from it. For example, according to Locker-Lampson, any European Jews now being mistreated in Austria would be enabled by this bill to assume "extraterritorial citizenship in Palestine," and they could then apply in Vienna for the aid of His Britannic Majesty's consul general...
When a vote was taken on whether the Locker-Lampson bill should be admitted to first reading, the House exactly divided 144-10-144, creating the first tie in the Mother of Parliaments since 1910. Amid laughter the Speaker, Captain Rt. Hon. Edward Algernon Fitzroy, broke the tie by casting his vote in favor of one of the most novel pieces of jurisprudence ever introduced...