Word: billings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Senate also: ¶ With House conferees, agreed on a bill raising minimum wages from 40? an hour to 75? an hour...
...time when Senators were itching to shut up and go home, the talkdown worked. At week's end, by a vote of 36 to 30, the Senate sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee. Nineteen Republicans joined 17 Democrats (mostly from the South) to put off the bill until next year...
...Voted the sliding-scale Anderson plan for support of farm prices, despite a hurried conference called by President Truman to urge costlier and rigid 90% supports. The bill deadlocked in conference with the House, which insisted on extension of 90% support level...
...C.I.O] stand prepared ... to pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such a defense fund themselves. Cautious Bill Green brushed off John L. Lewis' sweet-smelling offer as "impossible and impracticable...
...Browning Version and A Harlequinade (by Terence Rattigan; produced by Maurice Evans in association with Stephen Mitchell) stars Maurice Evans and Edna Best in a double bill requiring their British accents. As playwrighting, it is not too far from double bilge; Rattigan's study of a defeated schoolmaster is only a shade less routine than his spoofing of ham actors. As entertainment, however, there is a substantial difference between the two. The Browning Version, besides being almost exhilaratingly grim, gives everybody a chance to act; A Harlequinade 'encourages everybody to over-cavort...