Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also relatively uncontroversial. The House last week had up the last of the big rearmament appropriations, $292,695,547 for personnel, new airbases, etc., and to buy 2,290 more planes for the Army Air Corps. The Republicans managed momentarily to strike some $37,000,000 from the bill, on the ground that 1,283 of the proposed ships, intended for reserves, might be obsolete before commissioned. The Democrats rallied, voted the reserve planes back in, passed the whole bill on to the Senate. Striking feature : provision for giving Army pilots their first three months' training at commercial...
...Money Bills. Extension beyond June 30 of the Treasury's $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund, of its silver purchasing power, and of the President's power to devalue the dollar further, were all voted two months ago by the House. Old Senator Glass kept the bill deadlocked in his Banking and Currency subcommittee until the White House induced Senator Miller of Arkansas to change his vote. The bill then got out to the Senate floor, with Senator Glass swearing from his sickbed that he would fight to the end against monkeying with the currency...
...Europe 1) elbow-digs at British stuffocracy sufficiently to get a nod from most Anglophobes; 2) contains the sort of British acting calculated to warm an Anglophile's heart; and 3) has enough thrill, pace and lovestuff to stay on the top side of any U. S. double bill...
Died. Oklahoma Jim Moore, 87, old-time Indian fighter, lately technical adviser for Hollywood horse operas; in Strongsville, Ohio. Bearded, long-maned Oklahoma Jim was believed to be the last surviving eyewitness to the shooting of Wild Bill Hickock in a Deadwood, S. D. saloon...
...almost identical letters addressed to "My dear John," and "Dear Bill," the President tried...