Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would find Congress, well past the warm-up stage, in a healthy sweat of legislative action. Last week, beginning its fifth month, the Senate met on Monday, adjourned until Thursday, met briefly then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
...House met more frequently, no more effectively. Its week's work was to pass, over faint cries for Economy, a $2,500,000 bill for Federal aid to reforesting farmers...
...last week to be disillusioned so soon, he had reason to be disappointed. Last January he asked only one favor of the new Legislature: that it forward his pet scheme of a nation-wide system of TVAs by voting to link Nebraska's three big hydroelectric systems. A bill to accomplish that object died-in committee, killed by a deal between its friends and foes. That has led to a widespread suspicion that with only 43 legislators now to be persuaded instead of 133, the new Legislature is perhaps even more easily influenced than the old. Governor Cochran...
...legislators voted overwhelmingly last week against a return to the two-chamber system. Most of them are conservative, and no supporters of George Norris. They resolved against President Roosevelt's Supreme Court Plan, rejected the Child Labor Amendment by 35-to-7. Outside of an unemployment compensation bill, they showed small concern for Labor and the masses-small political potatoes in agricultural Nebraska. But they extended the State mortgage moratorium law for two more years, kept in step with the New Deal march toward regulated business. Passed were bills laying down price-fixing "fair trade" rules, creating...
Famed in the California Senate for introducing bills for the exclusive benefit of his own county, San Diego's Senator Ed Fletcher was the butt of a legislative joke last week in Sacramento. To the Senate reading clerk went a bill which Senator Fletcher's colleagues had drawn up in the familiar Fletcher style. Droned the clerk in his most serious monotone: "The sum of $6,635,000.03 is hereby appropriated from the unappropriated moneys of the general fund of this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river...