Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshmen, to whom these lines are chiefly directed, may perhaps be a little startled by the apparent expense involved in the advice therein offered. The expense, however, is only apparent. No one ever thinks of paying his tailor out of his allowance. The correct thing is to let the bill run, and not pay it at all, --payment encourages impudence: but if the tradesman grows clamorous and threatens jail, all you have to do is to plead minority, and let your parents and guardians settle the matter at their convenience
...last message from President Coolidge to the Congress was in course of preparation. Topics to be touched on were easily foreseen-the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill, Farm Relief, Tariff, Economy, Prosperity, etc. etc. Senator McNary of Oregon had audience at the White House and announced that he was framing an agricultural measure which would, this time, omit features that have so vexed the President and include features which the President approves. Approved features, long known in a general way, were hinted at in a speech last week by President Coolidge to the National Grange as they will probably...
...California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew that President-Elect Hoover had sent for him, his friend and confidant, to discuss political this and governmental that before departing good-willingly for South America...
...chief of a neighboring town. Professional reputations are at stake as well as national safety. The Navy Department, and its "second to none" statement, were rather the agents than the reagents of the Coolidge speech. The common object was to put momentum behind the Department's cruiser-building bill (15 cruisers, 1 aircraft carrier) which got delayed in the last session of Congress and which, in the imminent session, appears impeded by the simultaneous emergence and solemn language of the latest and greatest treaty "to outlaw war as an instrument of national policy...
Defeated, as the Reichstag settled to business last week, was a freak bill presented by Deputies of the extreme and reckless Right. Its essence: "Germany shall discontinue Dawes Plan payments and use the money to build an Army and Navy adequate for the Fatherland's defense...