Word: nextly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill now totaled $185,000,000. It had come over from the House at $54,000,000. Next day back it went for final House approval...
Heartsick Leader Rayburn let antique Adolph Sabath bring up the Housing bill. And again the knife fell, as Republicans Mapes and Wolcott brought figures to show that Housing under this bill would cost taxpayers not $800,000,000 but $4,380,000,000 in the next 60 years. Showman Martin of Massachusetts stepped aside to let a freshman Democrat, handsome young (31) Albert Arnold Gore of Carthage, Tenn. deliver the coup de grace. Gore, who got his law degree from the Nashville Y.M.C.A., roared in his maiden House speech...
...Passed, after four weeks' haggling, a bill amending the Social Security Act: 1) to spare employes and employers $825,000,000 in taxes over the next three years by freezing the old-age payroll tax at 1% through 1942; 2) to limit the unemployment insurance payroll tax to the first $3,000 of earnings cutting off about $65,000,000 in taxes; 3) to liberalize old-age benefits by commencing payments in 1940 instead of 1942, and to allow benefits to persons becoming 65 in 1939; 4) to add 1,300,000 seamen, bank clerks and farm association members...
...those agencies. A provocative, extremely controversial bill, it was rolled through the Senate by Senator Logan one day when his Kentucky colleague, Leader Barkley, was napping (TIME, July 31). Logan acceded last week to Barkley's plea for reconsideration, but vowed to bring the bill up again next session...
...first witness called by the Government at his deportation hearing four weeks ago, Alien Bridges denied in two Nos that he is or ever was a Communist. For all that the next 15 Government witnesses established to the contrary, the Service's Deputy Commissioner Thomas B. Shoemaker might have dispensed with them and saved much wear & tear on Harvard Law School's Dean James M. Landis, sitting as special examiner by the very special request of Secretary of Labor Perkins. Since Mr. Shoemaker had no direct evidence that Bridges actually belonged to the Communist Party when the complaint...