Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Pittman's Isolationist foes were annoyed at the isolationism of the Pittman bill. But they found one good target-the fact that the bill was credit-and-carry, not cash-and-carry. They shouted that this would modify the Johnson Act, one of the most sacred of U. S. cows, which bars loans to any government still in default on its World War I debts. But Key Pittman, a wily strategist, knew that in winning a political fight you must ask for twice what you can get, then compromise for half (TIME, Oct. 2); and that the loser...
...startled Denver City Council drafted an ordinance ending all meet-a-pal bureaus, matrimonial agencies and escort services, hoped to bar publications containing such advertisements from the newsstands, received inquiries about their new bill from many other U. S. cities bent on following their lead...
...when a youthful bar-comber, handsome, down-&-out U. S. engineer Bill Gregory (Robert Cummings), insults Singer Irene, she falls in love with him. Her love saves Bill from his gin-&-bitter end, sets him to piping pure water from the hills (for the peons). By the time Dirk, rather tactlessly, brings Paul to Rio after his escape from jail, Bill and Irene, happy in the thought that jungle ants and vultures have done for Paul, are all set to marry. The Freudian knot is cut by Dirk, who grapples with Paul when he tries to shoot Irene, inadvertently makes...
...twelve games on August i and looked like a cinch to win the pennant; but last week, mind you, they were struggling to defend a precarious 2½-game lead against the Cardinals, who had unfeelingly slugged their way to 20 victories in their last 24 games. Manager Bill McKechnie had lost 23 pounds in six weeks...
...from Kentucky; of a heart attack; in Washington, D. C. Massive, sincere, a quiet liberal, Logan rose from a Kentucky small-town law practice to sit as Chief Justice of the State's Court of Appeals; was ready to fight again next session for his major work-a bill that would provide quick judicial review of administrative agencies' quasi-judicial rulings, the first actively-functioning check on New Deal bureaus...