Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throat. I like the expression so well that I want to be reminded of it by having a copy of TIME'S cartoon framed and hung in my den. Your cartoonist has put prime "wattles" on President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg, Senator Vare, Senator Borah and "Big Bill" Thompson. HENRY HARRIMAN TYLER New Rochelle...
...speech of acceptance, he had said: "The Democratic Party does not, and under my leadership will not, advocate any sudden or drastic revolution in our economic system which would cause business upheaval or economic distress. This principle was recognized as far back as the passage of the Underwood Tariff bill...
That last sentence would need explaining, because the Underwood bill placed on the free list a lot of things that farmers raise, viz. bacon, hams, hogs, wool, lambs, sheep, corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, milk, cattle...
...general tariff bill was ever enacted as the result of a report from a properly constituted fact-finding body...
...state definitely that the Democratic party if intrusted with power will be opposed to any general tariff bill. . . . I definitely pledge that the only change I will consider in the tariff will be specific revisions in specific schedules, each considered on its own merits by an impartial commission...