Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the Deacons are preparing for a gala celebration, for their program is finished, and only the tennis match with Branford College' of Yale on Saturday remains. Next Tuesday night they're going to have a big dinner to present awards and to which Bill Bingham, Tom Bolles, and President Conant are among those who have been invited...
...week badly needed a new front man. On the eve of the Kentucky Derby fortnight ago in Louisville, an assembly of liquor men who make up the Distilled Spirits Institute received word from California that the State Legislature had passed and sent to Governor Frank Merriam an "antidiscrimination" liquor bill not unlike Missouri's. Prime purpose of the bill is to protect proud California's wine growers, but provisions are broad enough to exclude alcoholic imports from other States...
...Distilled Spirits Institute, penned telegrams to Governor Merriam asking veto of the measure. Joining in the protest barrage last week were the West Coast's two Governors Martin (Charles of Oregon. Clarence of Washington). At week's end California's Merriam still had the bill on his desk, called a conference of objectors to hear their views...
...Before New Jersey Legislators last week was a bill to reduce the tax on distilled applejack. Reason: consumption of famed Jersey ''light-nins" has slipped...
...sympathetic shrewdness he had become one of the most potent men in Syria. Then fate sent to Antioch, as Roman Governor, Varro's old acquaintance and antipathy, Cejonius. Because Cejonius, a cut-&-dried type of administrator, did Varro down on the little matter of a tax bill, Varro privately swore vengeance. He soon found a way to get even...