Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What would next happen to the bill, upon which many a farmer's heart is set, remained a political uncertainty. President Coolidge stayed on record against the equalization fee (and Secretary Hoover, in a telegram to Indiana farmers, joined him). The McNary-Haugenites, on the other hand, talked of gathering a two-thirds majority in Congress and relieving the farmer in their own way, another Coolidge veto notwithstanding...
...counsel and comfort they could from Major General Behan's record, in the face of a situation in the North over which they had much concern but no control. For the first time in 27 years, a Negro was going to Congress. In Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson directed the selection of one of his Negro ward bosses, a large, greying "race man" of somewhat Thompsonian demeanor, to succeed the late Martin Barnaby Madden as the Republican nominee for U. S. Representative from Chicago's largely Negroid First District...
...last week, the Mayor of Chicago entered his office at the City Hall and sat down at his desk. That is all there is to the story. That in itself was a newsful event because since taking office one year ago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago had, up to last week, gone to his office only three times: once to be sworn in, once to handshake Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, once to be photographed at his desk. Mayor Thompson spends most of his time, in short-sleeved shirt, with cigar in mouth, surrounded by spittoons...
...Egyptian Parliament, greatly daring, had brought the ultimatum upon itself by approving the so-called Public Assemblies Bill. Under that innocuous title is cloaked a measure which would severely curtail the police power to maintain order during public meetings, which, in Egypt, turn very easily into anti-British race riots. Therefore the London ultimatum to Cairo, last week, informed Egyptian Prime Minister Nahass Pasha that he must "immediately . . . prevent the Public Assemblies Bill from becoming law," or else expect "His Britannic Majesty's Government to consider themselves free to take such action as the situation may seem to them...
...customs offices at Alexandria and Port Said, from which the Egyptian Government derives a major portion of its revenue. Faced with such a threat-to-pocket, Prime Minister Nahass Pasha yielded inevitably, but sought to save the face of Egypt by promising merely that action upon the Public Assemblies Bill would be "postponed." To this equivocal capitulation His Britannic Majesty's Government sternly replied that they "would again be obliged to intervene ... if ... the Public Assemblies Bill were to be revived...