Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's power irrevocably dead? Administration men had said it would be, until toward the eleventh hour they produced an opinion from Attorney General Murphy stating that the power might legally rise again, after lapsing, should the Senate pass this money bill later on. Until a weary hour Senators debated this point, finally agreeing to vote on the bill this week...
...Secretary should choose to pay $40 an oz. for gold instead of $35 he would in effect devalue the dollar. If he should choose to change the price daily or hourly he could use the power for much the same purpose as the Stabilization Fund. Therefore when the money bill failed to pass, the Administration was placed in no serious hole, nor did Congress recover any notable power previously delegated. The real issue between the President and Congress was: Who is boss...
...unfinished money bill's provision against further buying of foreign silver last week caused near-panic in Mexico. In the U. S. all foreign bar silver available was rushed to the mints. The world price dropped to 38? per oz. (from 43? at the first of the week...
...Despite strong pleas by Speaker Bankhead and Majority Leader Rayburn ("Is there any immorality in our shipping arms to a little weak country so it can defend itself?"), the House decided not to turn Franklin Roosevelt entirely loose. The Vorys amendment carried again by 214 to 173, the whole bill...
...citizens would travel on belligerents' ships at their own risk. (Out of the bill was knocked discretionary power for the President to define combat areas and prescribe U. S. ships' and citizens' actions therein...