Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Chairman Key Pittman postponed a showdown in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the biggest question this Congress has had before it: The Neutrality law, the rules of behavior for the President of the U. S. should war break out abroad. The House had sent up the Bloom bill putting half a halter on the President, obliging him to embargo U. S. "arms & ammunition" (but not other material such as planes, motors, trucks, oil, cotton) to belligerents (TIME, July 10). Reason Senator Pittman delayed seemed to be that he was not at all sure of being able...
Hardly had his appointment been announced when he declared: "We must have a treaty navy second to none. The United States must cease leading the disarmament movement by example." He pushed the Vinson Bill authorizing construction of 101 new ships at a cost of half a billion dollars; he upped the Navy's enlisted personnel to 100,000, authorized the creation of aerial landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, threatened to fortify all trans-Pacific naval bases if Japan won parity with the U. S. By the end of 1935 he could say: "I am pleased...
Spite and silver were the amalgam holding together last fortnight's Senate coalition of Republicans and hard-money Democrats which furiously filibustered the Monetary Bill beyond midnight of June 30 when Franklin Roosevelt's power to pare the dollar died and with it the Treasury's exchange stabilization fund. Silver and pressure were what Franklin Roosevelt used last week to split the coalition, pass the bill, revive both fund and power...
...higher subsidy for U. S.-mined silver was the bill's third provision. The Treasury's old price was 64.64? per oz. Silver Senators demanded as high as $1.29. The Administration ascertained that 70.95? was a rock-bottom price for which enough silverites would desert their hard-money allies. It was crude barter by both sides, but it worked. The bill finally passed 43-39 with Senators Borah, Pittman and O'Mahoney leading seven silverite sellouts, setting the price of silver...
...against their longer working hours. Actually, their leaders were trying to coerce Congress by direct action to correct a situation which they thought would provide an argument for employers in private industry (especially building contractors) to depress wages. They regarded their strike as a belated lobby to alter a bill which went through too fast for them to mass forces against...