Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World's Shmoo." Taft and Malone were in a lonely minority. The only real debate came over an amendment which would retain the "peril-point" procedure added to the bill last year by the Republican 80th Congress. Under this provision, the Tariff Commission determines how far a tariff can be reduced without "threatening serious injury" to the U.S. industry concerned. The President can go below the peril point in negotiating reciprocal trade treaties, but if he does, he must publicly report his reasons to Congress...
Seven other amendments were voted down. One offered by Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy to put quotas on Russian furs was defeated only after a tie vote was broken by Alben Barkley, exercising the Vice President's prerogative for the first time. Then the Senate approved the bill itself, extending the reciprocal trade program for two years by a thumping 62 votes...
...given up its court-packing scheme, he proposed a drastic change in the Supreme Court's procedure-one which would require a two-thirds majority in all decisions dealing with the constitutionality of acts of Congress. Minton later toyed with the Constitution again, when he introduced a bill to gag the press by imposing a $1,000,-to-$10,000 fine on publications which printed a "known untruth...
...platoon of enraged party bosses set up an opposition ticket, called themselves the Independent Republican Good Government group. But in last week's primaries, Meade's ticket won in a walk. Nobody thought that all of Philadelphia's old fat cats had changed their spots. But Bill Meade had at least made a start toward proving that a big city machine can give the voters good men and decent government...
...estimated as high as $50 million. Both planemakers and airlines looked to Washington for help, but Washington had not made up its mind what to do. Last year, when the planemakers first woke up to Britain's challenge, they had tried to get Congress to pass a "prototype" bill under which the Federal Government would pay for experimental commercial planes. But the bill died in the Senate...