Word: billings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week began, the Senate settled down to voting on amendments to the Administration's Thomas bill, a slightly thickened second serving of the old Wagner Act. The key question was how to handle strikes which jeopardized the national welfare...
...event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit injunctions, but bar seizures. One after another, ideas were passionately debated, defeated by Taft's phalanx of Republicans and Southern Democrats. The fight was so close that...
...safe 50-40, Taft's injunction-seizure amendment won. A.F.L.'s old William Green sent Scott Lucas an angry letter telling him to fight no longer to make "the Taft bill more palatable" since it was already "absolutely unacceptable." This, said Taft, was "probably the most presumptuous statement that any individual has ever made to the Senate...
...billion for veterans (pensions, hospitals, G.I. Bill of Rights...
...Bill of Particulars. The letter constituted a detailed bill of particulars indicting the state's campaign to "completely exterminate the church of Christ." It accused the government of all manner of persecution, of deceit, fraud, kidnapings and robbery. "All the ecclesiastical press . .. has been suppressed ... Every Catholic book which is to be published, even prayer books, is subjected to preliminary state censorship. State plenipotentiaries are planted in Catholic publishing houses . . . The church is deprived of the last remnants of its property . . . Almost all church schools have been wiped out, and those which remain are painfully insecure . . . Teachers of religion...