Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further Investigation. Last April, stirred by the Senate's activity, President Coolidge ordered the Department of Justice to look into and report on the Salt Creek lease to Sinclair. Attorney General Sargent turned the matter over to Assistant Attorney General William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan. The result was awaited attentively, not only by Senator Walsh, but by Senator Capper of Kansas. The latter, a faithful Republican, did not seek to embarrass the Administration, but there were potent oil men in Kansas who wanted to know what was what. Not the lease provocative feature of Oilman Sinclair's Salt...
Less easily disposed of by M. Poincaré was an issue adroitly concocted by Socialists and Radicals. They pounced upon a budgetary bill which would permit the Government at its discretion to restore certain properties confiscated from the clergy under the great Secularization Bill of 1905, whereby the French church and state were separated. Loud demands were soon current that M. Poincaré must withdraw this measure, or the Socialists and Radicals would order the Ministers representing them in the present Sacred Union Cabinet (TIME. Aug. 2, 1926) to withdraw. Stung to action the Prime Minister confronted critics with...
...degree of intolerance, the unscientific absolutist dictatorship of religious feeling, of the legislators and people of Tennessee in the Scopes Trial. It was an example of unassailable belief which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable right of any citizen of the United...
...relieve the Republican party and its managers of the necessity of spreading false propaganda about the Democratic attitude on the tariff by stating that neither the Underwood nor any other tariff bill will be the pattern for carrying into effect the principles herein set forth...
Parson Faunce (the name rhymes with Harvardized "chawnce") is short, dignified and deep voiced. He faintly resembles Cartoonist Bairnsfather's "Old Bill." He has poise, personality, pudginess. He invariably wears wing collars, four-in-hand cravats. Cigars have never yellowed his teeth; spirits have never tainted his breath. He is precise in conduct, a precisionist in speech...