Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill now totaled $185,000,000. It had come over from the House at $54,000,000. Next day back it went for final House approval...
...Tuesday the first head had fallen, that of the gaunt Great White Rabbit of 1939, Franklin Roosevelt's Spend-Lend Bill that was proposed at $3,860,000,000 but had been slashed to $1,615,000,000 in the Senate (TIME, July 24, et seq.). In Franklin Roosevelt's biggest legislative defeat yet, the House refused (193-167) even to consider the bill. This was the first time a Roosevelt Congress had turned down pap and pork...
Franklin Roosevelt took the defeat calmly (see p. 11). To get his foes' names on the record he ordered bald, kindly Leader Sam Rayburn to bring up the $800,000,000 Housing bill. But that very day the House was still crashing the ax on Roosevelt spending, slashing the Deficiency bill by three-fourths...
Heartsick Leader Rayburn let antique Adolph Sabath bring up the Housing bill. And again the knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...down went Housing, 193-166. And down with it went the House's bloodlust. By Saturday, when Adams sent back the Deficiency bill, the House was relaxed, approved it swiftly. Leaders tried to soothe the session's accumulated seven-months bitterness. In the House they succeeded, in the Senate a diehard New Dealer, patent-leather-haired Claude Pepper of Florida, re-opened and salted afresh all the old wounds with a last-minute castigation of the anti-Administration "alliance." In words so cutting they skirted the edge of Senate rules he scourged the Republocrats for "putting personal grudge...