Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ambassador Judah never before held public office higher than a seat in the Illinois assembly. He has never felt that his Republican sentiments required him to admire Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, who labeled Mr. Judah a "silk sock" when the latter managed an anti-Thompson primary campaign. Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois has been the Judah patron. He introduced the bemedaled* lawyer-soldier to Washington last year and President Coolidge was impressed. Colonel Judah, onetime Assistant Chief of Staff of the Rainbow Division, is a director of the Chicago Title and Trust Co. and an alumnus-trustee...
...prepare workers for a "Cooperative Commonwealth." Its constitution said: "The working class and the employing class have nothing in common." It would make only one bargain with employers?complete surrender of industrial control to the workers. A split soon reft the I. W. W. ranks. William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood of Chicago headed the "direct action" party. The so-called "Detroit Wing" was doctrinaire, not determined about political action. After Mr. Haywood's flight from the U. S. in 1921 to escape jail, the political action clauses of the I. W. W. constitution were erased. The "one big union" motif...
...supernal with Mrs. Hammonds' uncle, one James R. Armstrong, who is said to study the Yogi philosophy. Oklahomans embellish their stories about Governor Johnston with sarcastic references to gnomes, nymphs, sylphs, salamanders, crystal-gazing, mystic numbers. Newsgatherers relate how Governor Johnston once said he would sign a certain bill at a certain time "because the signs of the Zodiac will be favorable then." Was he joking? Or was he serious...
...blood and breeding of a Howard* are not compatible with direct censure of a "Big Bill" Thompson; but the direction of Sir Esme's lance was evident when he commenced to tilt, thus: "We have heard so much lately from another place of the danger of British propaganda in this country that I was beginning to wonder whether the descendants of the Pilgrim Fathers gathered here to celebrate the landing of their ancestors at Plymouth might not have feared that the presence of the British Ambassador tonight might bring with it some dread infection of the terrible disease known...
...chief lobbyist for the McNary-Haugen bill was found to be ensconced in the Vice President's offices at Washington while Congress was McNary-Hauging. For this Mr. Dawes was roundly scored by Chicago business friends. The explanation was that Mr. Dawes, smart politician, traded his support of the McNary-Haugen bill-which he felt sure President Coolidge would veto-for reciprocal Senate support of the McFadden Branch-Banking bill, which became...