Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill to set new sugar quotas in place of those expiring next December...
Nine-tenths worn out by the Court struggle and Washington heat. Congressmen had so little inclination for attacking any new problems that the New Deal was reported anxious to postpone the revised Court Bill for fear that Congress would just lie down like a tired mule once it was disposed of. The result was something approaching a new deadlock, this time between the Presidential will and Congressional fatigue. There was some talk about adjournment and reconvening in October as a way out, but everybody except possibly the President and most ardent New Dealers was just a little too tired...
...veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell of Georgia, Gibson of Vermont and Duffy of Wisconsin, who dared not sail until after the Court Bill's solemn political interment in Washington (TIME, Aug. 2). They were to arrive in time to dedicate other" tasteful monuments at Flanders Field, Bellicourt, Cantigny, Gibraltar, Château-Thierry...
...Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd announced last week that he would introduce a bill to reimburse a Smithfield ham producer for losses suffered on hams which the Post Office was unable to deliver to Republic Steel Corp. officials during the steel strike...
Nevertheless the Governor did not sign the bill. While it lay on his desk he listened to bitter protests from labor leaders who saw in the "otherwise" clause an open invitation to a reactionary court to forbid picketing altogether. Limiting picketing to those on strike precluded even demonstrations by strikers' wives & daughters. Last week one hour before the law would have become effective Governor Murphy vetoed...