Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another action, defeated Councillor Charles A. Watson said he has filed with Superior Court a bill of equity contending that the absentee ballots previously identified by the District Court are invalid because they had been marked with the names and addresses of the voters...
Replying to a question, McCormack explained why he remains on the House Committee on Government Operations. He said that he had been chairman of the committee, but had stepped down to let "a great American," Bill Dawson, the first Negro chairman of a House Committee take over. "I stay on, because I know he'd feel heartbroken if I were to resign," McCormack declared...
Soundly beaten in his candidacy for Governor of California last year, Bill Knowland slipped quietly into working harness on the Tribune, which has been in his family for 44 years. The Tribune seemed more than ready for a firm Knowland hand on the editorial side. At 86, Joseph Russell Knowland. Bill's father and the Tribune's publisher, was pretty well out of action. Bill Knowland's brother Russ, 57, was running the business end. And Bill's son Joe, 29. while willing, still needed editorial seasoning. Leaderless, the Tribune had drifted into some bad habits...
Hurrying into his fourth-floor office every morning around 8:30 after a bracing 4½-mile walk from home, burly, vigorous Bill Knowland looked just the man to take charge. But as the months passed, there was no improvement. Reserved to the point of coldness. Bill Knowland rarely mixed with his staff. Son Joe occupied himself with writing memos to copy boys (No talking to rewritemen) and drawing up rules for staffers (Don't throw cigarette butts on the floor). Overtime was cut to the bone, and staffers who quit were not replaced...
With Tribune morale at rock bottom, the results of last week's Guild election were inevitable. Indeed. Bill Knowland hardly put up a fight. Said he after the polling: "The vote speaks for itself." Indeed it did: by a 2-to-i margin. Bill Knowland had just lost another election...