Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weekend adjournment any hope that the Wagnerites could break through the Southern barrage to bring their bill to a vote had grown dim indeed. It disappeared altogether as the Senate reconvened this week when, with the filibuster going into its sixth successful day, "Cotton Ed" Smith abruptly closed it to his colleagues' intense and unanimous relief by producing his farm bill...
...Bill. Main spur to the Senate Agriculture Committee was the antilynching filibuster on the floor, which could be ended only by the introduction of a Farm Bill. After a week of feverish work, the subcommittees finally had a bill ready to report which the full committee was expected to bring in this week. Based on regional hearings held before the session started, it included provisions for control by the Department of Agriculture of five major crops: wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and rice...
...maximum hours and minimum wages throughout U. S. industry, was passed by the Senate just before it adjourned last August. In the House, the bill hit a snag in the potent Rules Committee, which can at least temporarily prevent passage of any bill by not giving a rule to bring it up for debate and which, since it includes a majority of four Republicans and five Democrats from the South whose industrialization depends on low wages, was last week as unwilling as ever to let the Black-Connery Bill reach the floor. Only means of getting it there in this...
...letter from the editors of the Monthly received too late, after revision to bring it within the required 400 word limit for publication this morning, will be printed tomorrow...
...chose to term the "unsavory labor policy" of the University. Accurate, reliable criticism which is derived from the actual facts, and truthfully reported, is helpful and always appreciated by the authorities; but libellous, false and publicity-seeking accusations only serve to alienate those against whom they are directed, and bring nothing but ridicule upon the accusers...