Word: headedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traveling a rocky road beset by amendments since hearings began last May, the Black-Connery Wages & Hours Bill, spurred on by Franklin Roosevelt, nevertheless leaped over barrier after barrier, seemed headed for enactment. Out of the Joint Congressional Committee chairmanned by Senator Black and the late Representative Connery, this "little...
¶ Bullet-headed General Fu Tso-yi, chairman of Suiyuan Province, with 4,000 men was still holding out against Japanese attacks in the narrow gorges of Nankow Pass.
The House had plenty of help in making up its mind. For seven months the most active lobby since the 1930 Smoot-Hawley tariff bill had buzzed about Capitol corridors. Chief Lobbyist Ellsworth Bunker, vice president & treasurer of the National Sugar Refining Co. of New Jersey, gave dinner parties for...
Well aware of the filth, crime and disease spawned in New York City's sprawling slums, Manhattan's square-headed Robert Ferdinand Wagner proposed a bill two years ago seeking to eliminate such surroundings. The embryonic law died in the Senate Education and Labor Committee. Last year Senator...
The Mayo Clinic is a partnership of a few men headed by the Brothers Mayo. They and all their staff receive flat yearly salaries and collect no fees. For example, the late Edward Starr Judd, their nephew by marriage and like them a onetime president of the American Medical Association...