Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ohio-born Mary Scott Lord Dimmick had been widowed by Lawyer Walter Erskine Dimmick when she married Benjamin Harrison-in 1896, four years after he left the White House, five years before he died. Last week the Senate Pensions Committee favorably reported a bill grant Mrs. Harrison, now nearing 80, a $5,000 annuity such as other Presidential widows have received, but Massachusetts David Ignatius Walsh found it his unpleasant duty" to file a formal protest. Pointing out that Mrs. Harrison never "shared the burdens of official life with President Harrison" and that both her husbands left her trust funds...
...emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile, the National Education Association had sponsored the Fletcher-Harrison Bill to appropriate first $100,000,000, later $300,000,000 a year, for education...
...things blocked this bill. One was the size of the appropriation. The other was the opposition of the Catholic Church, which has been most vociferous in denouncing Federal control of education. But the pressure for Federal aid had become so great that a year ago President Roosevelt appointed an Advisory Committee on Education to study the matter. As its chairman he chose University of Chicago's hard-working Floyd Wesley Reeves, now on leave from the University as personnel consultant to TVA. Last week the Committee made its report, removed 'the two stumbling blocks...
...Washington a committee of the National Education Association, after seeing President Roosevelt, indicated that the President would support his Committee's recommendations. And in Congress, Senator Harrison prepared to amend his Federal aid bill to conform to the Reeves proposals...
...application blanks for five State schools, accommodating 500 ground pupils each, to be established at major airports. Tuition will be free to physically fit boys & girls over 16. And in the U. S. Senate, New Jersey's Democrat William H. Smathers put forward an $8,000,000 bill to provide 200 flying fields from coast to coast with airplanes, instructors, free schooling...