Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a final and as ever victorious verbal struggle with the Davis Cup committee, Big Bill Tilden and his fellow tennis warriors have sailed to engage in the first Davis Cup matches an American team has played away from home for many years. What the chances are for Tilden, Lott, Hennessey, Hunter and Coen to ensure next year's contest being on American soil will be uncertain for many weeks yet, but for a year at any rate France has the honors. Indeed, for most of the summer the attention of the sporting world will be focused on Europe...
...hypothetical hosts of rustics who are to intimidate the Convention like a Paris mob in a French Revolution, are partisans of the McNary-Haugen bill. According to the farm dailies and the associations of stock and wheat growers, sympathy for this price-fixing measure is neither intense nor intelligent, while the Governor's call to arms is mere political chicanery. But the public confidence in the present method of choice of candidates is already so shaky, that this putative affront by over-alled bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout...
...many U. S. farmers actually read the bill, or read President Coolidge's veto message, will never be known. Historians, studying another debacle of agricultural legislation in the U. S., pointed out causes and clauses...
...Transportation Act of 1920 provided a Labor board to discuss disputes between operators and workmen, but its findings were not made mandatory. The Watson-Parker Bill of 1926 amended the Labor board's functions to include arbitration. The Board's name became "Mediation Board"; its findings were made "final and conclusive" if upheld by a United States District Court. Federal District Judge George A. Carpenter of Chicago dismissed an operators' petition against a finding of the Mediation Board last December. Last week's Circuit Court decision upheld Judge Carpenter and notified the workmen not only that they would...
...Passed through second reading the Equal Franchise ("Votes for Flappers") Bill, after a stormy session during which Earl Balfour warned: "If you do not pass this bill you will wake up to find . . . that the House of Lords has been abolished...