Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obstacle that will be presented by militant objectors to the treaty's ratification is the cruiser-building bill which was lost in the last session of Congress. Responsible people have said that President Coolidge encouraged that bill's defeat. They have also said that the cruiser bill would be a good one to trade for the treaty's ratification. They have said further that President Coolidge foresaw this trading possibility. It will not be hard for President Coolidge to reencourage the cruiser bill. It was recommended by his Secretary of the Navy originally. The combination...
...Secretary Mellon's dislike of the high-rate situation was reflected in the small amount of the new issue. Only $525,000,000 were authorized, whereas $600,000,000 or more had been confidently predicted by Wall Street. The balance of the Treasury's September bill, which with interest on the public debt will amount to some $1,040,000,000, must be met by September income tax receipts...
...Bronx Zoo, New York, vandals last week committed wanton depredations upon the caged beasts there. They shot the only Arabian Dorcas gazelle in captivity, a frail and beautiful animal. They threw stones at the only shoebill heron in the U. S. until they smashed its bill so badly that it could not eat and could scarcely breathe. They threw more stones at the sea lion until they blinded one of its eyes. Weirdest of the crimes was the dark attempt of a man to pull a cobra from its glass case by means of a cane and to carry...
...most singular of all creatures. Five feet tall, grey, gaunt, spindly-legged, it lives naturally in the White Nile marshes. Its head is extraordinarily large, topped by a little curled tuft. The eyes scowl, when seen from the front, stare brightly in side aspect. Queerest is its great bill, which clacks-clacks hollowly when the bird gapes or preens itself. That bill closely resembles a shoe (whence the popular name "shoe-bill") or the head of a whale (hence the scientific name Balaeniceps...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson is mayor of Chicago...