Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed without a roll call the bill extending until Dec. 31, 1941 the authority of the Government to make soil conservation payments direct to farmers instead of allocating the funds for administration by individual States after Dec. 31 as provided in the Soil Conservation Act. Sent it to the President...
...Passed (221-to-160) the $123,002,674 Department of the Interior appropriation bill. Sent it to the Senate...
...retired as chief justice of the State supreme court and was about to become chairman of the Republican State Committee. Today, Borah occupies apartment 77 at No. 2101 Connecticut Avenue and Oldster Van Devanter occupies apartment 47, three floors below. When they meet in the elevator, they say "Hello Bill" and "Hello Willis...
...liberals in Congress felt there was still less need for enlarging the Court to insure a liberal majority. Result: the one promising chance of the President's getting his plan approved dwindled until the odds were slightly against it and there was even doubt last week whether a bill to let him appoint two additional Justices could be passed...
...Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown at the beginning of his second term. From this standpoint the Van Devanter resignation was distinctly bad news...