Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Still the Congress wrangled, all last week, over the relief bills to be enacted for drought-stricken farmers and the industrial unemployed. The House wanted to lend the farmers $30,000,000 for feed and seed; the Senate wanted to lend them $60,000,000.* The Senate insisted that the farmers be permitted to buy food for themselves as well as their livestock under the loan; the House thought this would be a dole. On the $116.000,000 unemployment-relief bill there was disagreement over: 1) Senator Robinson's amendment taking allotment of sums out of the President...
...other important piece of legislation (outside of the standard 1932 appropriation bills) was brought before the Senate last week: the House bill to "give $150,000,000 more to the Federal Farm Board, thus tacitly approving its wheat-market operations. Such operations had been approved and called a success by a meeting of farm-organization heads and agricultural legislators before Congress convened. Despite broad objections by Senator Borah, who wants the export debenture form of farm aid, and specific objections by Senators Black and Tydings, who tried to stop the Board's trading in commodity futures and on margin...
Wets in the Finnish Diet, parliament of the world's No. 2 Prohibition country, did their best to give a handsome Christmas present to thirsty Finns last week. They introduced a bill to raise the alcoholic content of legal beer from 1.6% to 3% by weight.* The measure was rejected (97-86) but, impressed by the closeness of the vote, the Cabinet ministers dropped unofficial but important hints that so soon as the ice is out of the lakes and canals next spring, the Government will introduce laws preparatory to a national referendum on Prohibition. (Finland's present...
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...Just in time to save the situation and the Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took his amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost...