Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tenth day passed without the President's signing the Muscle Shoals bill. Ten years had passed while the bill was getting through Congress. The "pocket" method of vetoing saves a President the trouble, or embarrassment, of saying why he disapproves. Presumably, President Coolidge "pocketed" the Muscle Shoals bill because it called for Federal operation of the Government's Wartime power-plant on the Tennessee River and for Federal manufacture of fixed nitrogen, which is used in fertilizer and explosives. President Coolidge had urged that the Government lease or sell the power plant and let private interests make power...
...Oklahoma City, Editor Carl Williams of the Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman said: "Some farm politicians will be there, but not many farmers. Actual surveys show that, in the Southwest at least . . . less than 30 per cent, [of farmers] have been definitely in favor of the McNary-Haugen bill...
...significance attached to this resolution, last week, because among the 5,000,000 collectionists represented by the Union Congress many are young housewives, under 30, and these will soon be enabled to vote for the first time, by the confidently expected passage of the Equal Franchise ("Votes For Flappers") Bill (TIME, June 4, et ante). Collective buying thus looms as an appreciable factor in moulding the new Flapper Electorate...
...healing process. If the irritation were stopped at this stage the lungs would heal. It is the increasing accumulation of silica particles and the continued growth of fibres that finally cause death. Perhaps the present agitation will move the New York State Legislature to pass the compensation bill it has neglected for four years. The Board of Transportation at any rate is eager to do its immediate utmost. Said deputy chief engineer Colonel John R. Slattery: ". . . Two methods of preventing trouble from this source have been approved. They are the use of gas masks and the carrying of an extra...
Elected. Col. George M. Sliney, Wyoming pioneer, lifelong friend of Buffalo Bill, first to officiate at a wedding and preach a funeral sermon in the Big Horn Basin; to be mayor of Thermopolis, Wyoming...