Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around his shoulders. To the grip clung Rex's master, Dr. Harry P. Claus of Arlington, Va., a consulting engineer blinded in an airplane crash three years ago. Man and guide turned into a room where a sub-committee of the Interstate Commerce Committee was considering unfavorably a bill to require railroads to permit blind men's dogs to travel with them on trains...
Present to oppose the bill was R. V. Fletcher, counsel for the Association of American Railroads. He argued that there was no necessity to fix one more onerous law on railroads, that they were glad to do of their own free will what the bill proposed. The subcommittee's Chairman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina and his colleagues were inclined to agree with him. Then Dr. Claus and Rex walked in. Eloquently the young engineer told of the months of training which he and Rex had undergone together at the famed Seeing Eye institute in Morristown...
...economy-minded Senate considered the $571,000,000 Department of Agriculture appropriation bill last week, Idaho's conscientious Borah spotted an item of $1,000 for care of a herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends...
...Four days before in Albany the State Legislature passed a bill allowing women to sit on juries, making New York the 23rd State in which the privilege is granted (TIME...
...University of Chicago last October went SECommissioner William Orville ("Bill") Douglas to deliver one of an annual series of lectures honoring Poet William Vaughn Moody. Unlike other Moody lecturers, such as Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead and Poet Archibald MacLeish, Bill Douglas talked not of the arts & sciences but of the "art of predatory or high finance." Mr. Douglas spoke from two years' experience studying so-called protective and reorganization committees-"a vantage point from which the whole problem [of capital exploitation and dissipation] can be viewed advantageously." Last week the fourth and fifth reports on this subject prepared...