Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amendment to the Army Appropriation Bill of 1901 providing for Cuba to be given autonomy, but with a clause in the Cuban Constitution recognizing that Cuba is under U. S. protection, that under certain circumstances (e. g., the native uprising of 1906) the U. S. may intervene in Cuba's domestic affairs...
Peers of the Realm' were mightily stirred, last week, when the House of Commons sent to the House of Lords a bill providing that county councils "shall be empowered to enter and reduce rabbits upon land adjoining cultivation," if the cultivator shall have complained of damage from the rabbits...
...triumphant Hoover vehicle was to attack one of Lowdenism's loudest promoters, George N. Peek, executive chairman of the Corn Belt Conference. He accused Mr. Peek of plotting to ditch Lowden in favor of Vice President Dawes, whose outer office Peek used while lobbying for the McNary-Haugen Bill. Mr. Peek has lately been advising farmers to go Democratic. Piqued at Peek, Senator Brookhart said the Democratic farm plank was worse than the Republican; that Hoover knows more about the farm problem than Smith...
...secretly to large contributors to campaign funds the assurance as to what policies would be put into effect." Mr. Hunneman recalled that William Howard Taft promised revision of the wool tariff in 1908, that President Taft later excoriated as "indefensible" the helpful wool schedules of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill. In short, before Mr. Hunneman would give money to Hooverism, he demanded a declaration from Mr. Hoover on the present wool tariff which, according to Mr. Hunneman, strikes manufacturers as a virtual embargo...
Forty years ago James Whitcomb Riley and Bill Nye collaborated on and published a railroad guide. Said they: "What this country needs is a railway guide which will not be cursed with a plethora of facts or poisoned with information. In other railway guides pleasing fancy, poesy and literary beauty have been throttled...