Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pressing subject of taxes, the President announced that he favored the revision being discussed in .the House as soon as "Congress is ready." A balanced budget in 1939 would be a business stimulant. The President reiterated to Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley his insistence that the new Farm Bill include provisions for whatever expenses above the current $500,000,000 appropriated for annual farm programs which it might entail. To a press conference, he announced his intention of asking Congress to reduce next year's Federal subsidies for State highways by about $110,000,000. Paradoxically, while business would...
...Debated the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, to give the Department of Agriculture power to regulate wheat, cotton, corn, rice and tobacco crop quotas (TIME...
...Passed a bill containing five minor amendments to the Federal Credit Union Act, passed in 1934, under which credit unions may be organized and operated under Federal charters issued by the Farm Credit Administration...
...Senate. What ended the filibuster about anti-lynching-which had served its purpose of keeping the Wagner Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill from reaching a vote -was the Pope-McGill Farm Bill, giving the Secretary of Agriculture power to set up crop quotas for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, establish "ever-normal granaries by buying surpluses in fat years." Unfortunately for its proponents, when the Farm Bill which Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith's Agriculture Committee had been wrestling with for a week finally reached the floor, the tone of that body's proceedings was not greatly...
...meeting last night in the Chess Room of the Union, 75 Freshmen interested in track watched movies of last year's track meets and listened to Alex Northrop, this year's Varsity track captain, Bill Neufeld, the Freshman Coach, and Jaako Mikkola, head track coach, describe the values of their sport...