Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of the canvassing of peers old and young last week by Lord Parmoor was a most creditable compromise. The Labor Government agreed to put through the "dole" bill with a three-year limit, instead of the one year desired by the House of Lords, thus saving faces all round and en abling the measure to be wisely labeled "experimental." Said the Laborite Daily Herald, official organ of prudent Scot MacDonald...
...opinion a public opinion which approves of prizefighting, including the knockout blow, cannot logically condemn flogging. Men and women who flock to an exhibition between the 'Game Chick' and the 'Battling Brown,'* would gladly see 'Burglar Bill' punished by the 'Wandsworth Walloper...
...Particularly infantile was debate in Washington over the statue last September. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota's first district introduced the appropriation bill with this ringing preamble: ."Whereas the first white man to set foot on American soil was a native son of Iceland Leif Ericson, an able and fearless sailor who in the year 1,000 A.D. discovered the American mainland...
Said Assemblyman Louis A. Cuvillier: "The time has come for the State of New York to step in and prevent future cruelty to animals by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Accordingly, I have introduced a bill in the Legislature keeping this society from collecting all the dogs' licenses, fines and pensions...
...Washington, last week, the House Committee on Agriculture, headed by Gilbert N. Haugen, considered the Norbeck-Andresen Bill making it "unlawful for any person to kill or capture any Bald Eagle within the continental United States, Alaska, Porto Rico or Hawaii," or to meddle with such an eagle's nest. If the bill is passed it will be legal to kill an eagle only when he is caught in the act of killing lambs, fawns or foxes on fox farms. Eagles killing chickens or making off with children will be immune...