Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Returning purposefully to Washington, the President took personal charge of the fight, and presently the silverites were bought off in conference by a promise of 70.95? silver. Effect of this deal was to infuriate the hard-money men to the point of filibuster, and the bill failed to pass before the June 30 midnight deadline...
...Declined to up income, bank and corporation taxes, vote a State wages & hours bill, reform the antiquated State prison system, regulate professional lobbyists...
...were frowning on the current overexpansion of the horse-racing business (there will be over 60 supposedly Grade A tracks in the U. S. next year), California went a step further in using horse racing to balance a budget. To Governor Olson, the State Legislature last week sent a bill legalizing (and supervising) poolroom bookmaking and other away-from-the-track horse-race betting. Taxation on California's handbook betting (which is not limited to California tracks) will net the State $20,000,000 a year, its proponents say, in addition to the $2,500,000 the State...
...American Civil Liberties Union, since March, has accumulated a resounding voice of 86 radio stations in 35 States for its 15-minute, free weekly scripts, Civil Liberties in the News, presented as "a commentary on the present-day struggle to preserve the Bill of Rights for all people throughout our country...
Excerpts: "Thanks to action just taken by the Georgia State Legislature, the Bill of Rights has now been ratified by all 48 States...