Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: ... I fail to see how the appearance of such a cover on an issue of your publication at a time when the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill is be fore the U. S. Senate can be taken other than a deliberate attack on the Southern opposition to the bill...
...midst of a Senate squabble on the Housing Bill, Nevada's spare Key Pittman, Chairman of the Foreign Relations committee, rose to answer the charge made day before by California's Hiram Johnson, a fellow committeeman, that the U. S. "had no foreign policy." Mr. Johnson advanced the theory that the State Department's protestations of peace were at odds with the President's threat of "quarantining" aggressor nations. In his Chief's defense, Senator Pittman declared: "When the President of the U. S. first entered office he announced what I consider the fundamental foreign...
...years in the United Mine Workers, leaving him no more than an honorary member of the Chicago Musicians Union. Presumably he will join the down-&-out Progressive Miners of America, recognition of which by the A.F. of L. was the basis of the Lewis charges of "treason." Bill Green's eyes were filled with tears when reporters filed in to hear the announcement...
...reporter who did not get in was Columnist Heywood Broun, an accomplished Green-baiter. He was barred by Mr. Green's new pressagent, Philip Pearl, who resented Broun's description of his job as "streamlining" Bill Green...
Accordingly, last week the anti-lynching filibuster was interrupted to allow the Senate to pass its first real piece of business this session-a bill to amend the 1934 Housing Act. Mortgages were to be guaranteed up to 90%, interest was reduced to 5% and building of multiple dwellings for investment was encouraged. Pointedly omitted was the specification that prevailing local wages must be paid on the jobs. Pointedly, handsome young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge-another great friend of Labor-had proposed it, but in the end the Senate adopted (42-40) the amendment without the prevailing wage clause...