Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy after his first election in 1904. He measured up to make a trio of the famed Illinois couple of that time, Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon and James R. Mann. His district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge...
However his abilities may have outgrown his home district, Mr. Madden's popularity at home had not diminished. His constituents were disgusted with his political associate Mayor William Hale (-'Big Bill") Thompson, and some of them had determined to nominate a Congressman of their own race, a Negro. But Thompsonism could not touch him nor could race pride overcome so long and fine a record as his. Mr. Madden was comfortably renominated. Appointment of a Negro to succeed him was expected, the first Negro to go to Congress in 25 years, the first ever from the North...
...Sirovich also said: "I shall make it my duty when Congress convenes next week to introduce a bill insisting that every known medication which can be used instantaneously to save life shall be on the floor of the House of Representatives to be used in an emergency...
Chicagoans groaned again to think they ever re-elected Mayor William Hale (''Big Bill") Thompson. Chicago had had no such deficit since 1917, when the first two years of Thompsonism necessitated a special bond issue. One unprovided item was $56,700 for removing dead animals from Chicago's streets this year. This item is traditional on city budgets, usually as a fat morsel of graft. In the case of gang-ridden Chicago, people interpreted the phrase "dead animals" as a euphemism for something far more grisly than graft...
...heckle him, he fairly roared: "What! you mock us, do you? Then we will advance upon you with invincible power!" Paying but small regard to modesty, Chancellor Churchill added that "possibly" his new budget program is "the most important measure to be introduced in Parliament . . . since the great Reform Bill...