Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted against Reapportionment (1929) Though not on formal record, he favored Boulder Dam (1928), opposed the Navy's 15-cruiser bill...
...real leader of the farm bloc in the House. This bloc is not so insurgent as its Senate counterpart, which permits him and his followers to maintain their standing as regular party men. He has stopped counting the number of bills for farm aid he has offered in the House in the past eleven years. Many of them were along the same lines the Federal Farm Board is now pursuing. With his knowledge of practical husbandry, of law, of politics, he has become Agriculture's most potent House orator. He plugged for the old McNary-Haugen bill, extolled...
Williamson Bill. To accomplish this purpose a bill was last week offered in the House by Representative William Williamson, chairman of the Committee on Executive Expenditures. In the Senate Chairman Norris of the Judiciary Committee promised "early and careful" consideration of the question. The U. S. Drys, Consolidated, generally applauded the prospect of the transfer and most of their friends in Congress promised action...
Other Objections. Against the transfer legislation, to which there was the least general objection, Drys raised a strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of 'legger leakage this, too, should be under the Department of Justice. Industrialists legitimately using alcohol threaten a revolt if their raw material is taken from the Treasury. An ingenious compromise has been devised to hold both in line: the Secretary of the Treasury could issue industrial alcohol permits only after...
...many of the students in College subsist either upon monthly allowances or some form of dividend, and as most of these are received upon the first of every month, they arrive just too late to be of service in settling the problem of the term bill. It is therefore suggested that it would be a great convenience to a good many undergraduates if the authorities in Lehman Hall could afford to extend the limit on term bills for a day or two past the first of the month...