Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bilbo of Mississippi, who have to do a lot of interpreting of their liberalism when they get back home, sought to soothe their farmer constituents by doing something now. They trotted around petitioning for a special Congressional session in October for the express purpose of enacting a farm bill. Calling a special session is strictly the prerogative of the President but it was understood that Mr. Roosevelt did not object to the petition. He cared not whether his comprehensive farm legislation (ever-normal granary, etc.) is enacted now, in October or early in January (provided Congress promises to take...
...language in which Pumpernickle Bill writes his column is neither German nor Dutch nor English, but a mixture of all three. It is the dialect of the ''Pennsylvania Dutch," who number more than 150,000 in that part of the Lehigh Valley. The experts, of whom Mr. Troxell is No. 1, resent the common designation of "Pennsylvania Dutch," insist that Pennsylvania Germans is correct. The language is better suited to the ear than to the eye, hence Pumpernickle Bill's column is read aloud to family groups in over half the homes reached by the Allentown Call...
Last week was a full one for Pumpernickle Bill. Thousands of his readers welcomed him at the annual Pennsylvania Folk Festival at Lewisburg, where they made merry with "shigs" (jigs), songs and games. His entry, the Martztowners. captured the $100 prize for the best square dance team. In the course of his rounds Pumpernickle Bill collects his people's folk lore, preserves their songs on his ubiquitous recording machine...
Pumpernickle Bill's car is a familiar sight on Pennsylvania roads. He averages about 30,000 miles a year, taking in Grange meetings, bee inspections, potato demonstrations. He has been writing his friendly column of anecdotes since the death in 1924 of Obediah Crouthamel (real name: Solomon DeLong), to whose column he was a contributor. Pumpernickle Bill's slogan is: "Fergess net, un schreib alsa mohl" (Don't forget to write sometime). A feature of his column is: "Glawwas Odder Net, Ow'r" (Believe It or Not). Sample...
There is no law in Missouri specifically prohibiting private transactions for State building bonds, though it is the sense of Missouri court decisions that they are permissible only in an emergency. Greatly perturbed by Baum, Bernheimer's strange successes, the Investment Bankers' Association sponsored a bill at the last session of the State Legislature to enforce public offering of all bonds sold in lots of more than $20,000. The bill expired in committee. St. Louis bankers thereupon asked and received from sedate Governor Stark written assurance that the next time Missouri bonds were put on the market...