Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, the man without whose support Mr. Lowden cannot hope to enlist his own state delegation, continued hostile to Mr. Lowden. Mayor Thompson has enormous admiration for President Coolidge. Last week, Mr. Thompson's comment on the Coolidge statement was a clownish mixture of shrewdness and absurdity: "Well, I'll vote for him anyway...
...shouted James A. Gallivan, Massachusetts Democrat, after the reading of the Deficiency Bill. Later he was unabashed by a report from Charge d'Affaires Whitehouse in Paris, denying the alleged spying on Mayor Walker of New York City, whom Mr. Gallivan, a cunning clown, denied having named by name. The outburst served merely to notify the 70th Congress that jocose Mr. Gallivan, who little resembles most Harvard men of the '80's, was again on hand with his alliterative eloquence, his unquenchable Americanism...
...million dollars or so asked for the State Department were voted among the Deficiency Bill's other items, totaling some $198,916,264.91 for which the last Congress failed to provide funds...
...Raising. A clause of the Deficiency Bill called for $5,635,000 to modernize the U. S. S. Oklahoma and Nevada but forbade using any of the money to increase the range of their guns. Up stood Fred Albert Britten, two-fisted Illinois Republican, member of the Naval Affairs Committee. He set forth that 13 of the 18 U. S. battleships cannot shoot as far as can 20 of Britain's ships, ten of Japan's; that to elevate the Oklahoma and Nevada guns to give them the same range as British and Japanese guns, would not contravene the spirit...
...designed to cut U. S. citizens' taxes by $232,735,000 net. Secretary Mellon had recommended a cut of only 225 millions. Democrats and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce had agitated for a cut of 400 millions or more. The House settled itself to scrutinize the bill, to debate its features...