Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Aircraft Inquiry of 1925, a united Army & Navy air department. He took the lead in U. S. commemoration of the first Wright flight at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He makes frequent and long speeches in the Senate on the need for aviation development, for more airports. He has a bill pending to enlarge the Department of Commerce's powers in investigating civil air accidents. He is the Senate's most airminded Senator, might well be rated its aeronautical expert. His zeal for a high tariff combined with his professed ignorance of tariff matters led to his disastrous...
...Continued debate on the Tariff Bill. ¶ Adopted a House resolution appropriating $5,380,000 to provide Gold-Star Mothers with free trips to the European graves of their sons...
...Passed, after a three-day debate, a bill transferring Prohibition enforcement from the Treasury to the Department of Justice (TIME...
Altogether we think the Silver Slipper is an exceedingly pleasant haunt, so pleasant that we were inclined to forgive George for committing the sacrilege of singing a version of "My Bill" to a tired looking air deal pup which he brought out on the dance floor...
...less bewildered was Secretary of State Clarence Brown, who had been ill in a hospital when the bill was passed. Apologetically said he: "I simply missed the play and fumbled the ball." He went at once to Attorney General Gilbert Beltman, for in Secretary of State Brown's opinion, Section 199 violates the bill of rights "and provides for confiscation of property without due process...