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Word: billing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...existence. Of the 218 signatures he needed to get the measure to the floor, Representative Ludlow has had 200 or so for several months. Mr. Ludlow found, in the congressional reaction to the Panay sinking, a chance to get the dozen or sa additional signatures he needed and the bill was scheduled for six hours of debate on January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Pandemonium | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...much politeness as he could muster, that he was unable to perceive either "the wisdom or the practicality" of the measure. Rules Committee Chairman John J. O'Connor denounced it as "monstrous." The President-in response to whose wishes the House Military Affairs Committee reported favorably on a bill forbidding unauthorized sketches or photographs of U. S. fortifications and equipment-obviously opposed it. Since the resolution is framed aj a Constitutional Amendment, it would need a two-thirds majority in both houses. Chance that the Ludlow Resolution would ever get much closer to a vote than it was last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Panay Pandemonium | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Passed and sent to conference the Pope-McGill Farm Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Voted to send the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill back to the Labor Committee for further study and revision, in effect killing it (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

...Passed, 324-to-23, without notable amendment, a bill embodying the President's plan to amend the National Housing Act (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Work Done, Dec. 27, 1937 | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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