Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House sent the Bill to conference with good reason to think that the Senate would approve, the President sign...
Connecticut's patient Fenn got his 1930-basis reapportionment bill out on the House floor last week and it was debated for three hours. But the same old thing happened. The measure was sent back to committee, i.e. smothered to death. The mirror stays warped...
...small room of the Kremlin Hospital, Moscow, Big Bill Haywood died last week...
William Dudley Haywood had been born 59 years ago in another small gloomy room, the kitchen of a mining cottage in Salt Lake City where his father worked. When he was nine, Bill Haywood was sent to work digging coal; this he disliked, so a few years later he was bound out to a farmer. Bill Haywood ran away from the farm, did some prospecting, became a Socialist. In 1899, when the Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, striking began, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Western Federation of Miners. Seven years later he was the defendant...
...Washington, to Congress, to the Senate, to a great portion of respect and honor. Clarence Darrow every year more saddened by wrongs as untouchable as stars, could do not better than go on defending queer men, among them, two pale, sadistic murderers and a country school teacher. Big Bill Haywood took advantage of his fame. He organized the I. W. W. "We are the roughneck gang," he said. When the War came he refused to fight...