Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Capital to lobby for passage of the American Youth Act. Unimpressed by foreign crises, nationwide Recession or the advisability of attending to their homework, the "pilgrims" were in hope that a parade, attendance at Senate subcommittee hearings and their innocuous yodelings would persuade Congress to pass a bill of which the major intent is to provide part-time jobs for the youth of both sexes between...
Approaching the awkward age, Shirley is not quite so dewy as she used to be. Paced by the dark veteran, Bill Robinson, through two simple tap routines, one to a pleasing tune called Toy Trumpet, she seems something more than a doll, something less than a little girl. Her singing, almost free now of the lilting lisp that has three times made her No. 1 Oh-&-Ah cinema champion (TIME, Jan. 3), sounds much like that of any little Sunday-morning radio aspirant...
Pepper. To provide this missing implement in the U. S. financial tool chest, Senator Claude Pepper of Florida has a bill before the Senate providing for insurance by RFC of bank loans to business for expansion purposes. Last week he appeared before the Senate Banking & Currency Committee to denounce investment bankers and suggest the creation by the Government of national industrial banks to provide capital to small businesses. Said he: "The time has come when the Government must step in and not only afford adequate facilities to business, but break up the grip of the investment banking group upon...
...York Legislature has grappled with the Communist menace. In the midst of the intellectual stagnation and physical exhaustion that usually accompanies the closing hours of a legislative session or a six day bike race, the New York solons passed a bill banning radicals from state office. The bill defines communism as "the doctrine which advocates the destruction of the state by force and violence and the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat or the advocation of the suppression of free speech...
...indication of the true import of this bill is its parturition in the patriotic breast of Senator McNaboe, whose record includes vigorous support of the New York Teachers' Oath Law and an oft repeated demand for an investigation of subversive activities on the Cornell campus. It is discouraging that a legislature which has just enacted a constructive program of social reform should have taken so seriously the emotional fulminations of Senator McNaboe, that it passed a bill which would bar from teaching posts some idealistic parlor pinks whose sole crime is the possession of a confused and incoherent social consciousness...