Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. The first week's disclosures before the Senate's lobby committee, observers thought, seriously imperiled the whole tariff bill now before the Senate. Vague and generalized have been the charges heretofore that special interests exert special influence through lobbyists to obtain special tariff favors. Now opposition Senators were supplied with damning specifications for use in debate. Every tariff increase was suspect. The investigating committee tasting blood, was in full bay after that prime tariff lobbyist, Joseph R. Grundy of Pennsylvania, vice-president of the American Tariff League. The rotund Grundy shadow has moved about the Capitol almost...
...trail of the lobbyists and so important was their reluctant testimony in relation to the pending tariff bill that the Senate committee even pondered the advisability of asking the Department of Justice for a detachment of Secret Service operatives to run down clues, to bring skulking lobbyists up out of their holes...
...Adopted (42 to 34) the export debenture plan as an amendment to the tariff bill...
...world."* Elated, President Green enthused, "No more significant event has ever happened in the history of the A. F. of L. than this announcement." Injunction Power is the breaker of strikes, the bane of organized labor. For its restriction the A. F. of L. executive council concocted a bill last summer (TIME, Aug. 23). With but one dissenting vote the convention endorsed the bill, hoped wanly for congressional action on it. Organization of Southern Labor was undertaken by the federation with a fervent, choral "aye." A committee was enthusiastically delegated to gather $1,000,000 to feed, clothe, house Southern...
...only photographs of himself and bride on their honeymoon to the New York Times for enlargement. They were snapshots and turned out beautiful. "Times offered Lindbergh $1,500 for the set. They'd have made ideal roto 'shots.' Lindbergh declined the offer and asked for a bill for the enlargement, which the Times sent. "If the colonel had sent the pictures to one of the tabloids for reproduction and enlargement-!" The facts, however, were not quite as stated by Variety. True, Charles Augustus Lindbergh had sent the snapshots to be developed. But he sent them...