Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Congress was in session had Jack Garner done anything of this kind. In Congress he has been one of the President's chief behind-scenes wirepullers, arranger of neat political compromises, legislative uncle of the New Deal. With the Executive department reorganization, wages & hours and taxloophole-plugging bills on the way, with the Supreme Court enlargement bill expected to produce such a fight that perhaps the Vice President's vote and certainly his influence would be needed, Jack Garner was slipping away...
...recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile and utterly dangerous abandonment of Constitutional principle...
...Passed a bill i) for the deportation of criminal aliens (for crimes such as gun-toting) that are not deportable offenses under present law, 2) to permit the Secretary of Labor for four years to waive the deportation of not more than 8,000 aliens of good character who have been ten years in the U. S. illegally. Sent it to the Senate...
Sparks began to fly last week when President Roosevelt let it be known that his Black-Connery wages & hours bill, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1937, which has been publicly mulled by the Senate and House Labor Committees the past fortnight, was to pass substantially as written. Sidetracked thus was Senator Borah's proposed amendment to bar monopoly-made goods from interstate commerce. But as C. I. O.'s John L. Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green agreed with each other and with Capital that the wages & hours fixing powers...
...Washington stormed white-thatched James A. Emery, general counselor for the National Association of Manufacturers. Fist clenched, he damned the bill as unconstitutional, cumbersome and certain to hoist consumer prices. "The vast and ambiguous . . . ocean of authority . . . granted to a board of five . . . will obliterate the last vestige of local self-government." What the country really needed from Congress, he said, was legislation to fasten some responsibility upon labor unions...