Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...billion dollar navy bill which will be submitted to Congress this morning there is palpitation of the heart for Secretary Wilbur and the sweetest of justification for Admiral Magruder. It will be remembered that the admiral's offense was in aerating the navy's soiled linen in the Saturday Evening Post, with the implied suggestion that an early laundering would not be inappropriate. The admiral was spanked in a manner peculiar to those who go down to the flagships in launches; and his suggestions were adopted...
...hardly worthy of a businessmen's report." Banker Pierson, unabashed, stuck to his guns. He intimated that the Chamber would reply in detail. He said: "The constituency of the Chamber is a cross section of the country. . . . After all, it is Congress which will pass the tax bill-not the Treasury Department, nor the National Chamber...
...Congresswoman-at-large from Illinois. The male voices which last week boomed Mrs. McCormick's nomination in the primary next spring and her election next autumn, came from the heights and depths of her party. From the depths came a throaty rumble of assent from William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, blatant Mayor of Chicago. From the heights, at a luncheon of the Illinois Republican Women's Clubs, came the staccato bark of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes, who said: "I am for the women. I recognize their sincerity. When it comes to making mistakes I think...
Last week two premieres were announced for a double bill. Die Maien- konigen was the curtain-raiser, a pastoral meringue, mixed & baked, it is said, by no less a man than Gluck for the birthday palate of Maria Theresa. Then came Richard Strauss's Feuersnot...
CIVIC REPERTORY THEATRE?Eva Le Gallienne's troupe in a shifting bill of sound plays, soundly played...