Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fault and agreed to make a correction. It was a film called Deliverance, a moral romance meant to advertise among Y. M. C. A. men the stirring statistics of Professor Irving Fisher, Yale economist and Dry propagandist. The script had called for a picture of Governor Smith signing a bill. The producer had clipped a newsreel "shot" of Governor Smith signing a tax-reduction bill and then implied by subtitles that the bill shown was the repealer to New York's Prohibition enforcement...
...Well, there's one thing about Big Bill Thompson," Chicagoans are wont to say, "and that is that he never grafted...
...financial dailies approved Candidate Hoover as certain to oppose any such legislation as the McNary-Haugen bill, which, Germans feel, would give U. S. farmers a decisive advantage in competition with their...
...felt safe. Pilsudski was sick. They knew that he had been too ill to receive the King of Afghanistan six weeks ago (TIME, May 14), and had lain abed ever since, some said paralyzed. Therefore the Polish Sejm (Parliament) rang with furious denunciations of the Cabinet's Budget Bill. This time there seemed no hope that it could be saved by a sudden, dramatic appearance of National Hero Pilsudski...
Died. Mrs. Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst, 69, organizer in 1903 of the Woman's Social & Political Union, leader of window smashing, Cabinet-heckling British Suffragists, often jailed, always released after hunger striking; two days after the House of Lords had approved the bill lowering the age limit for women voters from 31 to 21; in London...