Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the Army Appropriation Bill which provides for 1938 military expenditures totalling $416,413,382, a peacetime record. Sent it to the Senate. ¶Passed bills providing appropriations of $700 each for gold medals to be presented to Actor George M. Cohan, for his Wartime pepsong Over There, and Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth for his explorations, sent them to the Senate...
Reported out by a House-Senate conference committee, swiftly passed and flown to vacationing President Roosevelt for signing only five hours before expiration of the current temporary statute, was a new. permanent Neutrality Bill. Continued are present mandatory bans on furnishing of loans, credits, arms, munitions and implements of war to belligerents. In addition, U. S. citizens are forbidden to travel on belligerent vessels except as provided by the President, and U. S. merchantmen may not be armed. Contributions of food, clothing and medical aid, such as U. S. liberals are sending to Spam's embattled Loyalists, must have...
...bill's prime new feature, down for a two-year try out, is its provision for putting all trade with nations at war on a "cash & carry" basis, i.e., requiring the purchaser to collect and pay for goods in U.S. ports. There the Administration, by packing the conference committee and by getting the report delayed until there was small time left for debate, pulled the teeth of the bill as it was passed by the Senate two months ago (TIME, March 15). Prodded by its four peace-at-any-price men-Nye, Clark, Vandenberg and Bone -the Senate voted...
...vast economic power into the War but, forced to improvise methods as he went, his efforts fell short. Ever since 1919 he has been pounding away in speeches and articles for adoption in advance of a plan to mobilize the entire nation when war comes again. In 1935 a bill embodying his ideas was passed by the House, died in the Senate because North Dakota's Nye and his Munitions Committeemen wanted other terms. Last week, day after the House and Senate conferees agreed on the Neutrality Bill, the House Military Affairs Committee put Mr. Baruch's scheme...
...time Mrs. Catt sailed away, however, Filipino women were up & doing about enfranchisement. The native politicians adopted bobbing & weaving tactics. At one session the Philippine Senate would pass a bill enfranchising women, and the House would kill it. At the next the House would do the passing, the Senate the killing. Realizing that the men could not save their political faces forever with such trickery, the women campaigned ever more vigorously. When, in 1933, Michigan's Bachelor Frank Murphy became the first Democratic Governor-General in twelve years, they had the gallant ally they needed. With his help they...