Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make merry with expansive Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. The school children of New Orleans were instructed to contribute a penny each to buy a silver scroll of thanks for President Coolidge. Mayor O'Keefe called for thanksgiving services in all the churches. The Flood Control bill was law at last...
...Michigan team, undefeated by Conference aggregations during its spring campaign, is relying on Bill McAfee to hurl it to victory. He is credited with the outstanding performance of pitching 23 runless innings in succession against Big Ten nines. Asbeck, giant Wolverine moundsman who succumbed to the onslaught of the Crimson sluggers in the first encounter, may also be called on for duty...
...there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William ("Little Bill") Johnston, Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy (who won the women's singles for the eleventh time), and many another little Sutton and Bundy had battled for the Ojai challenge cups...
...been notable for the Chamber's persistent outspokenness on national legislation. President Pierson declined reelection. To succeed him the Chamber chose William Butterworth of Moline, Ill., president of Deere & Co. (plows). Judge Parker, who expects to be busy this year carrying out the newly-enacted Alien Property bill (War claims), was replaced as board chairman by Joseph Holton Defrees, Chicago lawyer. The four vice presidents are: President Alfred J. Brosseau of Mack Trucks (Manhattan), President Robert R. Ellis of the Hessig-Ellis Drug Co. (Memphis), President Robert Patterson Lamont of American Steel Foundries (Chicago), Vice President Paul Shoup...
Walter Lippmann, always an extremely lucid writer, turns on the Scopes trial and Mayor Bill Thompson's campaign against English propaganda a mind trained to observe and comment. His series of six brief essays turns both cases around and upside down, exhibiting to the reader far more facets than he would ordinarily have considered...