Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed (292-to-100) the Navy Expansion Bill, authorizing a 20% increase in the U. S. Navy at a cost of $1,121,546,000, sent it to the Senate...
...branch was crowded off again this winter by more practical concerns. By last week, with the country apparently back in the trough of at least a Recession, the Reorganization Plan had reemerged. Because it gave the President's enemies in Congress a fine excuse- ill-supported by the bill itself-to argue in effect that he was trying to make himself a dictator, it produced the major political fireworks of a highly incandescent week...
...that the executive branch needs repair did not originate with its present chief. Ever since the turn of the century, Presidents have been trying to untangle the underbrush of overlapping duties, conflicting authorities and mechanical inadequacies of the various bureaus, commissions and other agencies responsible to the executive. The bill which the Senate was debating last week, a considerably modified version of a report of a committee headed by a University of Chicago political science lecturer named Louis Brownlow, proposed five major changes...
...create, instead of the present three-man bipartisan Civil Service Commission which can be changed at the will of the President, a single Administrator, to be appointed by the President with the Senate's approval, for 15 years. The Administrator would be specifically delegated by the bill to submit plans for the development of a Government career service...
...double bill is excellent for those who have not yet seen "A Slight Case of Murder," now in its second run. Full of uproariously funny murders, lovable gangsters, Damon Runyon's English, and bad, bad beer, this finds Edward G. Robinson at his best...