Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, there is Hoover, the implacable enemy of the farmer. And of this Hoover we continue to hear--and shall hear more as the time for the convention nears. The debate turns partly upon Hoover's opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill and partly upon the famous dollar-wheat decision of the Food Administration in war days. Hoover makes no bones of his opposition to the McNary-Haugen bill but his friends insist that he had nothing to do with the dollar-wheat decision, and cite evidence to prove their case. That evidence is now being carried to the tribunal...
...theory of the Ku Klux Klan that Smith would open a bar at every corner. Possibly a more realistic theory than either of these predictions is that the Volstead Act, for Congress, has ceased to be a cause and has now become a routine, with an annual appropriation bill which never varies, and a game of political appointments played by Congress, the President being more or less a mere bystander...
...Muscle, Shoals problem gas once more come before the Senate. The bill which presents it proposes that the government market the power which can be easily developed and devote the proceeds to the development of farm fertilizers. Considering that the plant cost the United States $160,000,000 and that it cannot be sold at a profit this seems a sensible project...
...bill pays more attention to the power project, although the plant was originally planned for its nitrate development. Farm aid is now more logically a secondary factor and the power the primary object. Such a power centre is needed in the middle west and if the Senate puts the bill through it will be seizing an opportunity to utilize a white elephant by making him earn his living...
...remember that three hundred votes is substantially short of a majority in a convention which will seat more than a thousand delegates. And it is also necessary to remember that Lowden is one of a large number of gentlemen in IIIinois who have a standing quarrel with Big Bill Thompson, and that this fact may deprive him of a solid delegation from his own State