Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Summoning his Legislature for a special session to meet immediately after the regular session closed, Governor Murphy asked for a modified version of his model labor law. The House acquiesced but the Senate not only refused to pass the new bill but re-passed the old one, the Governor's support having been weakened by the fact that one Democratic Senator was unavoidably detained in jail. Defection of other Democrats led to heavy fisticuffing on the floor, after which the Senate abruptly adjourned, leaving the House still sitting. Over the weekend one lone Senator carried on as a sort...
...memoriam dinners were last week given in Washington. At one, 15 freshmen Senators who had supported the President's Court Bill, at least till near the last, mourned with the new Democratic leader, Senator Barkley. At the other, a happier affair, the Court Bill's opponents including Senators Wheeler, Burke, Mc-Carran, Clark, celebrated with famed Attorney Frank Hogan and Woodrow Wilson's one man brain trust, Joseph P. Tumulty. This second group of Senators celebrated not only the passing of the Old Court Bill but the birth of the New Court Bill whose swift enactment...
Chief provisions of the new bill as reported by Senator McCarran from the Judiciary Committee...
...Some suspicious New Dealers thought this phrase was a joke to make the new law ineffective. Drafters of the bill insisted it was just the contrary: inserted to make the law work, because a law giving the Attorney General the right to intervene in cases where the Government has no interest would be unconstitutional...
Every year since 1933 the four railway brotherhoods (trainmen, conductors, engineers, firemen) have got 70-car limit bills introduced into Congress. Spearhead of the drive is amiable but persistent George M. Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives Association, whose favorite thesis it is that railroads would have less trouble bearing the financial brunt of improved labor conditions if they had not piled up such huge funded debts while paying juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote...