Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...variety of news as greeted the breakfast table yesterday? There was the proposal by the President of the Carneigie Institute for a new national political party, the Liberal Party, to fight prohibition and other attacks on political and social liberty. Along side this dispatch, an account of a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature to give the state the right to buy and sell light wines and beer. On the next page, the story of Coast Guardsmen who, drunk on captured evidence, placed a "huge railroad switch tie on the tracks" just for a prank. On either side...
Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was in no mood to coöperate with the Strawn plan, to relinquish control over city finances. He talked grandly about selling tax warrants in New York and Europe if Chicago would not buy them. He blamed "reformers" and Chicago newspapers for the City's troubles. The city's newspapers long ago decided that the best way to get rid of the Mayor was to ignore him, have consistently done so through the present crisis. However they did not fail to print this message delivered last week by Mr. Strawn's committee...
...Nero fiddled while Rome burned, but he had nothing on what certain politicians are now doing. Big Bill is attempting to get a campaign platform out of the muddle. He is posing as a friend of the poor people against the inroads of the rich. He thinks it will be more effective than promising to biff King George on the snoot when he comes sailing down Lake Michigan toward Chicago...
John J. Raskob Jr., Yale undergraduate, son of the onetime Democratic National Chairman, forfeited $25 he had posted to appear at Norwalk, Conn., on a charge of driving 65 m. p. h. In 1928 an elder brother, Bill, 19, was killed in an automobile accident...
...obliged to reel to the nearest public phone to call a doctor, no further argument is necessary. Then the University, with its usual business acumen and perspicacity, charges for ordinary calls in these buildings on a time basis. The shock of this discovery which comes with the first phone bill is nearly as great to the nervous system as to the bank account...