Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirty little shack by a worn-out copper mine near the crest of the Bluebird Range in Montana, lives an old man with tobacco juice in his beard, holes in his shoes and memories in his head. His name is Bill Martin. He is a mine caretaker, sometimes a sheepherder, virtually a beggar. When he was young, he says, he prospected for silver and copper with a fellow called Bill Clark, formally named William A. Clark. Together they found metal, a lot of metal. Bill Martin drank up and gambled away his share. But not Bill Clark, who kept...
State, Illinois, where the "Coolidge-anyway" movement of Governor Small and Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson grew daily in transparency and disrepute...
...Amended the Senate's bill to prolong for one year the life of the Federal Radio Commission; passed it; sent it to conference, where it languished in controversy. ¶ Passed a bill authorizing an appropriation of $4,000,000 for reforestation; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed and sent to the Senate a bill creating a foreign service in the Department of Agriculture. ¶ Passed amid cheers and sent to the Senate the $274,000,000 Navy-building bill, authorizing 15 cruisers and one aircraft carrier, construction to be suspended by the President in case of an international disarmament conference, which he was urged to urge...
President Wilson once called him to Washington to talk about the LaFollette Seamen's Bill. Captain Dollar didn't want to see American sailors paid a minimum wage four times higher than the minimum wage for Japanese sailors. But though the bill was passed he went on beating Japanese competition. He sent his son Stanley to Washington to bid for five boats the U. S. had built for the War. His bid ($1,125,000 each; one third cash) was more than the Pacific Mail could offer. Stanley wired back...