Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first act was to head for Austin to try to beat a bill, which he had previously supported, to place San Antonio employes under civil service...
...20th District. It was his boast that he never cast a sectional vote, that he out-dealt the New Dealers, that he typified the rising political leadership of the new industrial South, Democratic, of course, but independent as an unbranded yearling. He voted for the anti-lynching bill and against Franklin Roosevelt's Big Navy,† questioned the wisdom of WPA, orated against cocktail parties and hat-doffing in elevators. He led a group of two score House youngsters called the Young Turks for their extreme views, some mushy, some daring, some plain cockeyed...
Lady Astor rose last week before a conference of 3,000 women Conservatives, to speak in favor of a Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more...
What Pilot Bill Wheatley had to say when he landed confirmed Designer Davis' calculations. Consolidated's new 25-ton Model 31 had a high speed of 275 m.p.h. (75 miles faster than Boeing's four-motored 314 clipper), handled nicely in the air. Gasoline consumption showed that she had a range of 10,000 miles with a light passenger load, that she could lug 28 passengers in Pullman accommodations across the Atlantic at a speed unprecedented for commercial flying boats...
...need of dental care. With these facts in mind, 3,400 members of the Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator Wagner's Bill and how Federal grants to States for their various health plans would affect dental practice. To their dismay, their meeting started off with two surprises not on the agenda...