Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Administration's $1,500,000,000 Relief Bill, rejecting (48-to-30) an amendment by Senator Lodge to use $20,000,000 of the funds for a national census of unemployed. Returned the bill to the House...
...Passed the $650,000,000 House revenue bill extending nuisance taxes and 3? postage for two years. Before doing so, it voted in (35-to-31) Senator La Follette's amendment to increase income surtaxes, then voted...
...Passed the Crosser Railroad Retirement bill to provide monthly pensions up to $120 after 65, to be financed by carriers and workers, administered by the Government, effective from Jan. 1, 1937. Sent it to the President...
...Passed 361-to-1 the Crosser Railroad Retirement bill (see above). Sent it to the Senate...
...seemed absurd, with the country at large in favor of abolishing child labor, that an amendment could not be written which "would say what we meant without saying what we didn't mean." 2) One of the President's chief arguments for the bill to enlarge the Supreme Court was that so simple a reform as the abolition of child labor could not be accomplished via a Constitutional amendment even in 13 years. Senator Vandenberg spent two months getting in touch with the opposition and finding out their objections to the 13-year-old proposal, which read...