Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nightmare at this time last year to the millions who live in its lower basin, the Mississippi River is a nightmare to President Coolidge now. Last week, alarmed by reports that the Flood Control bill, which the Senate shoved through last fortnight, might cost the U. S. a billion or $1,500,000,000, the President sent for Chairman Martin B. Madden of the House Appropriations Committee, his Flood Control spokesman. Mr. Madden was sick abed but up he got and to the White House he went. When Mr. Madden emerged from the conference he said the President...
...House, where flood control hearings began last November with no result as yet, the Senate was congratulated and its work received with interest. The House Flood Control Committee approved the bill and prepared to report it without major amendments...
...waves and wattages among the broadcasting stations, on a basis of population in five zones of the U. S. The effect may be to cut the franchises of the rich, long-established stations in the New York and Chicago zones to benefit Southern and lower-Midwestern stations. But the bill's flexible language seemed to permit "borrowing" of unused waves and wattages among the zones...
...above deeds and why remained a mystery-the usual Chicago bombing mystery. Posters were tacked on fences and poles throughout the city, advertising $65,000 in rewards for information concerning the Deneen and Swanson pineapplers. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe and others were sponsors of the rewards. Meanwhile, Chief of Police Michael Hughes reported: "It is almost impossible to trace bombers. There are 50 places in the city where dynamite can be purchased just as a person buys a package of cigarets...
...Passed incidentally the bill providing that a 10,000-ton cruiser shall be constructed at a cost of 80,000,000 marks, to become, in popular parlance "Germany's one battle ship...