Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...propaganda, bill-board posters...
...voice protested at first, when the Pittman neutrality bill proposed to shackle U. S. citizens with 3,500 words that added up to "Stay home under penalty of the law." But loud was the squawk from the shipping tycoons when they found that the bill would straitjacket U. S. shipping into immobility. While Washington wits called Nevada's Key Pittman a Thalassaphobe, and hinted the next step would be to make offshore swimming illegal, ship lobbyists got busy on sympathetic Senator Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina (TIME...
...Hopeless Julius Peter Heil, Governor of Wisconsin, blamed the debacle of the Wisconsin Legislature (which sat 269 days, passed no bill to meet the State's $21,000,000 deficit) squarely on "the lure of wine, women and song." Julius the Just, as he was called (before he took office January 2), said he now favored legislation which would "do away with the night work of lobbyists, both men and women, in Madison [State capital] hotels...
Jack Calhoun was elected captain of the Yardlings at a meeting before the game, and then proceeded to play an outstanding game in the forward line. Bill Mayger, veteran player from Exeter, also starred...
...come anywhere near filling Colby Howe's shoes. Little Ted Arico is the nearest thing to a climax runner that the Indians can offer, but he is too light for much service. But Hayden is a competent back, and Harvard has good reason to remember his running mate, Bill Hutchinson. Bob Krieger is slated to start at end, but Coach Blaik may be compelied to shift him into the backfield. In this event he will be a distant threat, but no MacLeod by any means. The Minneapolis school-boy sensation has yet to prove him-self in intercollegiate competition...