Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of economy Franklin Roosevelt has a record full of more anomalies than any other man in public life. Having been elected on a platform of balancing the Budget, he proceeded within a year to undertake a program of further unbalancing. Having started his Administration with a drastic economy bill, he quickly followed it by still more drastic spending measures...
Next day Senator Minton was speaking for the second time on behalf of the bill, yielded to permit a conference report on the War Department Appropriation bill to be made to the Senate. Senator Clark quickly made the point of order that since Mr. Minton had yielded for other than a question, his second opportunity to speak was ended and he must thereafter hold his peace. Senator Guffey was in the chair and for 20 minutes a desperate parliamentary wrangle raged. Then Senator Pittman returned to the chair and ruled that Mr. Minton was within his rights, could continue...
...needy students on its lists, WPA had given work to 42,000 unemployed teachers, there have been 1,500,000 youngsters in the CCC. To NEA, however, this tale of generosity did not atone for the fact that the Association's pet Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, providing Federal school subsidies up to $300,000,000 a year to the States, was sidetracked this year by the President when he sent his economy message to Congress. Ohio's fiery Representative Brooks Fletcher appeared at the convention to complain...
...convention once more resolved to plump for the Harrison-Black-Fletcher bill, encouraged NEA's adult education section to strike Congress for another $25,000,000 to eradicate illiteracy...
Died. William Andrew Me Andrew, 73, famed educator, onetime (1924-28) Chicago Superintendent of Schools; in Mamaroneck, N. Y. The focus of William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's clownish anti-British Mayoralty campaign of 1926, Michigan-born Educator McAndrew retired from teaching to edit the "Educational Review" in School & Society...