Word: bill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...passage by Congress of the Jones Flood Control bill over the expressed opposition of President Coolidge is the latest step in that body's defiance of the nominally executive head of the country. Thanks to the announced views of the President not to interfere with the legislative branch of the government, he has let Congress ride roughshod over his opinions in nearly every important issue that has come before it. From the time of the passing of the Bonus Bill over his veto, both houses have had the bit in their teeth and have raced through a series...
...Jones bill there is more need than ever for an executive capable of restraining the excesses of Congressmen. The best its proponent can say for it is, "as fair and reasonable as is possible with a bill of this kind," an admission which leaves much free play to imaginations apt in possibilities for graft. Yet with the precedents already set the chances of the President being able to defeat it are very slight. Restraint from interference in the other branches of government is a fine sounding policy for an executive to have, but at times its results seem scarcely worthy...
Governor. Lennington Small, the Governor, was overwhelmingly defeated for renomination by Louis L. Emmerson, who had been Secretary of State, since 1916. Mr. Small's reputation had been thoroughly discredited. Trying to save himself he entered alliance with his oldtime enemy, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago. Mr. Emmerson ran as a champion of virtue-yet Mr. Emmerson was for years a Small henchman and it was he who passed the checks to some Missouri delegates in 1920, causing the scandal that deprived Frank Orren Lowden of that year's presidential nomination...
Filibustering in the Dominion Parliament at Ottawa defeated for the time being, last week, a bill which would have empowered the (Canadian) Bell Telephone Co. to increase its capitalization from...
...expected the Rangers to win; they were facing many handicaps. Light and fast, they had to play the toughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons of Montreal. It was hard to see how flashy skaters like Frank Boucher, Ranger centre, or Bill Cook and his brother Bun, the wings, could stand being bumped around by checks like Siebert, Button, Smith. The Rangers were playing all their games away from home. In the second game their goalie's eye was cut open and Lester Patrick, manager and coach, a star defense man 20 years ago, put on the pads...