Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seeing TIME'S photo, I took out a ruler and measured the heights of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Curtis [Jan. 31], finding that she is only 38% taller than he. Hence if he is "3½ ft.," she must be a mere...
...three weeks, political wise-acres have been saying that in asking for $800,000,000 for Navy construction in addition to the regular $500,000,000 appropriation, Franklin Roosevelt was trying to get out of Congress an approval of his foreign policy in the misleading shape of a Navy Bill. Last week it seemed that something quite different had happened. It seemed that powerful isolationists were using the Navy Bill as a means of smoking out, and then perhaps modifying, the President's foreign policy...
...Concluding the sixth day of his appearance before the House Naval Affairs Committee, which had scheduled but two days for the hearings, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, said his last say in behalf of the bill. According to him, the Navy needed every penny of the money because costly $65,000,000 battleships were still the best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone...
...most convincing argument brought forth by the Admiral to refute isolationists who believe that the Big Navy bill is somehow connected with a secret Anglo-U. S. naval agreement was that the reason the Navy wanted such a big fleet was to make it independent of the need for just such alliances, give it the strength to protect both coasts alone. Thereupon, the committee called in the Big Navy bill's opponents...
Last week, Jeannette Rankin, now legislative Secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War, was the first opponent of the Big Navy bill heard by the Committee. The N. C. P. W. takes in about $150,000 a year, spends some of it trying to defeat "strong defense" advocates for Congress, including the Committee's Chairman Carl Vinson, who introduced the Big Navy bill. Said Secretary Rankin: "It is argued that the proposed increases are for defense but there is no assurance as to what the Government contemplates defending. . . . We maintain that a wholly abnormal naval building...