Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department there were great buzzings about how President Coolidge would now, surely, see to it that Congress soon passes a cruiser-building bill, if only to show France and England that U. S. naval policy is independent, self-respecting...
...Goodness! Nineteen-twenty-eight! [Chuckle.] Why, its half a century since I left college. I played football-and I was class salutatorian. They used to call me 'Big Bill.' I suppose [chuckle] all heavy Williams get called that [chuckle]. Big Bill Edwards-Big Bill Thompson [chuckle, chuckle...
...great Issue was, of course, the Tariff, the politics of which Nominee Taft so miscalculated that he was astonished when the reactionary Payne-Aldrich bill, signed by him, proved unpopular...
Bench. In 1921, a message pencilled on rough copy paper and signed "Gus," reached the Hon. William Howard Taft in Canada. It was from the late Gustave J. Karger, oldtime correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star. "Gus" reported that President Harding had just decided "to appoint Big Bill Chief Justice." Back to Washington he went, now far removed from the irrational bickerings of "practical men." Looking down from the High Bench, he beheld the "Best Minds" of the Harding era on the job, many of them from his native Ohio. When the Oil Scandals broke, there were no party ties...
...bill will empower the Grand Council and subordinate Fascist organizations to draw up the one and only list of candidates for Parliament which will be submitted to the electorate. Italian voters may then approve or reject the entire list by a simple majority vote of "yes" or "no," but with no chance to vote for or against individual candidates. Rejection of the entire list is considered outside the realm of practical politics, and the new system amounts to a scheme for maintaining Fascismo permanently in Power...