Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion and the length of the discussions in the Senate were themselves ample demonstration of the desirability of a real flexible clause in order that injustice in rates could be promptly corrected. . . . "He urged the Republican leaders to get together and see if they could not . . . thus send the bill to conference with the House within the next two weeks...
...What had prompted this Utterance was the growing defeatist attitude of the regular Republican cohorts in the Senate. There had been talk of outright surrender to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans, of adjourning the Senate Nov. 15 and leaving the Tariff Bill supine upon a deserted field. Such futility had pervaded the Republican camp that Brigadier Hiram Johnson of California remarked to his comrades-in-arms...
...Hawley-Smoot bill, he thought, was "a very limited revision," although it provided for increases in 42 of Pennsylvania's industries, representing additional protection of almost a half-billion dollars. But said Lobbyist Grundy: "Rates don't mean anything. They're not worth a row of three hoots. The increases for Pennsyl vania are so insignificant that they don't amount to anything. What counts are the administrative provisions of the bill." He explained that his lobbying method included no publicity, no "press bureaus' but direct personal contact with Senators and Congressmen who write tariff...
...integrity of legislation." Democratic Senator Dill of Washington suggested that the Senate Finance Committee should "purge itself" by removing Senator Bingham from its membership. Cried Democratic Senator George of Georgia: "The shadow of the Connecticut Manufacturers' Association is across every schedule and every paragraph of this pending tariff bill. That shadow becomes darker and longer as time goes on. ... A badge of dishonor and shame...
Bedbugs are worth 12½? apiece, or 2½? more than grasshoppers. This valuation was announced last week when the University of Pittsburgh paid a bill for laboratory insect specimens. No sooner had the news been published than the University began receiving shipments of bedbugs. Many people who had hitherto ignored the bedbug acquired an academic curiosity about him, wondered just what...