Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salvage what he could with the Soil Conservation Act. So this year when Franklin Roosevelt, in the face of mounting agricultural production, asked Congress to amplify the slender powers the Government possessed to control it, Henry Wallace and Ed O'Neal seemed destined to work on another farm bill together...
...compulsory control-levying penalties on excess production. Secretary Wallace observed in his annual report last month that although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...
...supervision of the WPA art project which he helped to found would be as precarious as the project itself while it remained an emergency measure. Discussion followed on what has become a great desideratum of politically conscious artists who want better standing than work relief affords-the Federal Arts Bill, a proposal for an arrangement more permanent and dignified than WPA, introduced in Congress last session by Representative John Coffee of Washington. Thickset, heavy-voiced Painter Philip Evergood, president of the Artists' Union which, with the Cartoonists' Guild, the Commercial Artists and Designers Union, had unanimously voted...
...scoffed at the idea of a seven-reel animated cartoon. The Snow White project was referred to as Disney's Folly. Rivals said he had bought a sweepstakes ticket. Shrewd older Brother Roy Disney, the business brain trust of the Disney enterprises, surveyed Snow White's final bill of $1,600,000, observed: "We've bought the whole damned sweepstakes." In the Disney film, Snow White, the delicate stepdaughter of the Queen, is a dark-haired girl with a doll's oval beauty and a voice like a chime of bells. The Queen, envious of Snow...
...goes to bed. Hollywood hotspots seldom see him. Weekends he plays poor but occasionally inspired polo at the Riviera Country Club, where he has a one-goal rating. That he has any rating at all he attributes to the fact that he pays a pretty big club bill...