Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken. Only flash of his old self was a sidelong crack to the effect that the Senate, in leaving Neutrality up in the air, causing "uncertainty" (for which he has so often been blamed) and "gambling" against war abroad, had bud-nipped a nice little boom.* > The Hatch bill effectually demolished the national Roosevelt political machine, as distinct from the national Farley machine (composed of State bosses & underlings) which built up and elected Mr. Roosevelt in 1932, stayed with him in 1936. At the Philadelphia convention three years ago, about half the 1,100 delegates were Federal jobholders. Next year...
...Making. When Joe Robinson was Majority Floor Leader of the Senate, no Democrat would have dreamed of trying to slip over an important bill when the Leader was away from his desk or preoccupied. Last week the level to which the supposedly ruling party had fallen was sensationally exposed by Leader Barkley's own colleague, ponderous Logan of Kentucky, who slipped over an act basically altering the authority of the New Deal's entire administrative structure while Leader Barkley and his whip, "Shay" Minton, were engrossed in conversation right on the floor. Not only that, but Senator Logan...
...kept them on mattresses in a spare room, bought them tags and food. Said he: "They make grand boarders. They are always on time for meals." But his oldest friend was liquor, and this friend did him in. His funeral was conducted by the Elks ("my church") and the Bill of Rights read over his grave...
...Riskin, who got into the movie business when a shirt manufacturer he was working for decided to take a flier in shorts. During the six years they worked together for Columbia, Capra & Riskin turned out a dazzling string of critical and box-office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth...
...that the privately owned retail outlets of Gamble-Skogmo, Inc. (auto parts) were not a "voluntary" chain of stores and therefore fair game for the State's chain-store tax. Right then U. S. motormakers began to anticipate trouble. Last week to General Motors, Colorado sent a bill for $234,655; to Ford went one for $102,470; to Chrysler, Hudson, Studebaker, Nash and Packard went others totaling $193,995. Grand total: $531,120, billed to the seven motormakers for four years' chain-store license fees ($2.50 to $300.50 a store). Grounds: their licensing and supervision of dealers...