Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yoakum detests politics in business not for business. Last May, he urged President Coolidge to veto the McNary-Haugen bill. Later, he telegraphed the President his approval of the veto. When Senator Fess talked on farming at the Republican Convention, he used many of Mr. Yoakum's most comprehensive phrases. Senator Borah used the Yoakum farm figures. When Nebraska's governor, plump Adam McMullen, repudiated his own "farmers crusade" last June, it was after he had received a telegram from Mr. Yoakum...
...heed to the heart of B. F. Yoakum's long letter: "The Democrats can present a marketing plan that is sound, practical and would be profitable to the farmers of the entire country, but they cannot do it by picking up the discarded remnants of the McNary-Haugen bill and following the false prophets of that discarded and exploded theory. They don't hold the farm vote in their pockets. They can't deliver it and any one who thinks they can will be deceived...
...chief achievement to the credit of the session of Parliament just closed is the passing of the famed "Votes for Flappers" bill, seldom heard of by its correct title "The Equal Franchise Act." Thus the vote is given to females between 21 and 30,* elder females having been enfranchised...
...late U. S. citizen thus honored was famed William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, once a renowned I. W. W., later the most prominent American actively associated with the Soviet State...
Frank Raichle is the law partner of Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General. He suffered bombardment when his innocent pleasure yacht was attacked, last month, by a Coast Guard Cutter (TIME, July...