Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balancing the budget in 1939 is $5,300,000,000. Excision of a levy whose revenue even its supporters estimated at only $45,000,000 a year was therefore more significant as a political weathervane (pointing in the same direction as the defeat of the Wages and Hours Bill last December), than as a fiscal dilemma. Most reliable source of Federal income in an emergency is always liquor. Last week, having been assured by New York's John O'Connor that "you could not possibly spend more than 50? a gallon in making whiskey," the House approved...
When Congress passed the second Agricultural Adjustment Act last month, most complex of its many complexities appeared to be the means whereby marketing quotas were to be established by a nation-wide vote of farmers. Last week, first two referendums held under the new bill indicated that at least this part of its machinery was in good working order. Farmers in 20 States went to filling stations, schools, grange halls to cast ballots on whether or not the Department of Agriculture should impose quotas on 1938 crops of cotton and tobacco. Counted by AAA County Committees and forwarded...
...with a mysterious, hideously painful disease.* A few more became ill in 1936 and 1937. The disease was first diagnosed as poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis). It was not. The Los Angeles press howled. Doctors were accused of incompetence, hospital officials of carelessness. Grand juries investigated. The county shouldered the bill for the care of the victims, which has now reached about $1,000,000. One newspaper charged that there was nothing really the matter with the patients except "weak muscles...
...disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned; 4) Nathan F. Leopold Jr. and Richard A. Loeb, for murder (1924) of 13-year-old Bobby...
...statement of what we own, what we owe and what we are worth. ... It is exactly the same as if you took two sheets of paper and on one listed the cash you have, the value of your home, car and furniture, and the dollar 'Bill Jones' owes you. On the other sheet you list what you owe the grocer . . . what you owe on your car. Then subtract what you owe from what you own. The result is what you are worth. . . . This figure is placed on your second sheet. Thus the first sheet-'what...