Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill appropriating $24,095,736 for expenses of Congress in 1938; returned it to the House for consideration of amendments adding $86,462 to the total...
...Passed (277 to 119) the anti-lynching bill introduced by Representative Gavagan, in whose New York district lies Manhattan's black Harlem, after a three-day debate. Sent it to the Senate. ¶ Passed (268 to 120) the Pettengill Bill which would repeal the long-&-short-haul clause of the Interstate Commerce Commission Act, permit railroads to charge less for a long haul than the aggregate rates between intermediate points. Sent it to the Senate where a similar bill died in committee last session...
...illness, strike, riot, civil commotion or act of God, not even the profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
...first day in Washington handsome Bill Smathers gave cameramen a lensful of how the well-dressed Senator appears, in cutaway, in tails, sitting, standing, talking, smiling, brushing his hair. Newshawks curious about his political significance guessed that it might be easier to tell how he would vote by watching Boss Hague than by listening to his own utterances. Some recent Smatherisms...
...Washington, before a gallery crowded with Negroes, the U. S. House of Representatives was beginning to debate a drastic anti-lynching bill introduced by Congressman Gavagan from New York's black Harlem. In Jackson, Miss., before delegates to a farm conference, Governor Hugh Lawson White was boasting that Mississippi had not had a lynching in 15 months. In Winona, Miss., in a jampacked courtroom in Montgomery County's white brick courthouse, Roosevelt Townes and Bootjack McDaniels, 26-year-old Negroes, were pleading not guilty to a charge of murdering a crossroads country grocer during a robbery last December...