Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walter-Logan Bill provides recourse through the Federal Circuit Courts and up to the Supreme Court, thus throwing vast legal jungles open to immediate appeal (and possible exploitation). Moreover, the bill imposes strict rules upon administrative officers and employes for making their decisions public and in writing for all to see. Damages are provided for injured appellants. The Department of Justice dislikes the act because it goes so far, and because a committee appointed by Frank Murphy is working on the same subject, might well produce a monument...
Sleepy "Shay" Minton managed to detain Senator Logan's passed bill at the Senate's threshold last week by a motion to reconsider, but if it passes the House this week, Kentucky's Logan will have a historic triumph over "administrative autocracy...
Charles Linza McNary of Salem, Ore., the Republican minority's Senate leader, was the one legislator who refused to treat the Court Bill as an earthquake. His eyes narrowing with the twinkle that always precedes the dehorsing of an adversary, pink-cheeked Senator McNary brooded long and carefully...
...seemed grandiose and daring beyond any dim 1937 Republican dreams gradually took shape under the still-sandy thatch that belies McNary's age (65). When all but a few bumbling die-hards believed the President would have his way about the Court, McNary coolly visioned not only the bill's strangulation but the wide-open splitting of the Democratic Party and the eventual use of the conservative Democratic wing by Republican strategists in a practical coalition which could not merely harass Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal but stop it cold. The conception was a brilliant, deadly parallel...
Imposing silence on his own colleagues, especially upon Idaho's sonorous constitutionalist, Wild Bill Borah, was Leader McNary's hardest job. Every morning he summoned them all to the green-baize table of his caucus room and made them vow tongue-holding again. "Let the boys across the aisle do the talking," he would say, smiling dreamily as he shot his cuffs. So it was not Borah or California's Johnson or Michigan's expletive Vandenberg who took the headlines in the Court debates. It was Virginia's red-hot Glass, Montana's Wheeler...