Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...national anthem, officially. In an effort to induce Congress to adopt Francis Scott Key's poem as the national anthem, representatives of many a patriotic and military organization flocked before the House Judiciary Committee last week to urge enactment of a bill for that purpose. The bill's author: Maryland's Representative John Charles Linthicum from the district containing Fort McHenry, over which Key, a prisoner on a British warship, beheld his country's flag still flying on the morning of Sept. 15, 1814, after an all night bombardment...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder...
Echoed California's Senator Johnson, "I have said nothing so far on what has transpired but there will come a time when it will be necessary to speak out. . . . From the standpoint of those who wrote into the bill the provision in reference to preferences, we will not be slow to express our views, no matter what any department may do or what any solicitor may advise...
...Gifford was testifying on the bill offered by Senator James Couzens of Michigan to establish a Federal Communications Commission. This Commission would regulate valuation, profits and service rates of telephone and telegraph companies. Theoretically such companies are now regulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission but that potent agency, already overwhelmed with its railroad work, has never attempted to exercise communications control beyond receiving financial statements and ordering changes in accounting methods...
...strong man Strawn did not have $20,000,000 in his hands. Success of his plan depended wholly upon the compliance of the city administration. The city council had shown signs of sympathy, but Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson and his cronies, with no definite plan of their own, offered only bitter opposition. Members of the Thompson cabinet charged, perhaps accurately, that Mr. Strawn's object was to discredit the administration, force Mayor Thompson out of office. The Mayor, apparently insensitive to the city's shocking condition, merely sneered at the Citizens' Rescue Committee as "reformers...