Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the Eli Varsity men piled up points on the track, Crimson weightmen were bringing in upsets to be chalked up on the scoring board. Captain Bill Schmidt sprained an ankle in the high hurdles, to be kept out of the lows later in the afternoon. Bill had the satisfaction of seeing John Case and John Sparrow go on without him in the highs to finish first and third...
...Congress' flouting of the President's wishes during his vacation absence consisted of nothing more serious than overriding his veterans' pension veto, taxing Philippine coconut oil, extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange Bill. The nation was still in crisis, Franklin Roosevelt was still its supremely popular leader. Congressional elections were only half a year away...
...instances where President Roosevelt would have been glad to see economies effected, the real obstacles to Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been...
...year-old Justice Willis Van Devanter, one of the Supreme Court's most stalwart conservatives, submitted his resignation, effective June 2, under the new Pension Law, and the Senate Judiciary Committee, as expected, cracked out a 10-to-8 adverse report on President Roosevelt's Court Reorganization Bill...
...history which featured separate oaths by the King for each Dominion. And King George had received them all at Buckingham Palace with equal deference (see cut). Colleague Baldwin was now anxious to capitalize that equality by letting them share his biggest headache: Britain's $7,500,000,000 bill for Rearmament...