Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed the $1,002,800,000 Independent Offices Appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. Undebated and untouched was the item of $966,838,634 for veterans compensation and pensions, the amount recommended in the President's budget.* Despite complaints that the "Power Trust" was trying to stifle the Government's investigation of its activities, the House refused (181-to-165) to increase the Federal Trade Commission's allowance from...
...Routed from his bed, the city librarian ploughed through volumes of histories. Hours later he reported: "Nothing ever happened in this world on Feb. 4." His thanks was a blast of purple oaths from Huey Long. Arthur G. Newmyer, one of the publishers of the New Orleans Item, was roused by telephone. A member of his family dug from the World Almanac the fact that President Wilson had severed relations with Germany on the night of Feb. 3. Huey Long pounced on it: "It took them two nights at least to do a job like that." He turned to Governor...
...reduction in retail prices, utility rates, interest on mortgages (see Item...
Last week, brought up short against this increasingly acute problem, the U. S. Senate prepared to act. Into the $500,000,000 bill for direct relief to States, reported out by the Manufactures Committee, was tucked a $15,000,000 item for "transients"-the voteless, ever-shifting tide of humanity which States are reluctant...
...economies. For a time the Cabinet seemed to have been saved. It won a vote of confidence 348 to 243. The Chamber voted 400 to 181 to sit all night and began to vote sections of the budget, voted 65 of the 150 sections. Suddenly up popped an item of 5% reduction in the pay of civil servants. Socialist objections touched off pandemonium. "My heart is torn," cried stringy-haired Socialist Blum, "but I am unable to vote with my friends!" In an incoherent scramble all sorts of Deputies, eager to curry favor with civil service constituents, followed the Socialist...