Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry. The candidacy of Vice President Charles Gates Dawes may contain a trace of realism, but the G. O. Politicians distrust Mr. Dawes. He is so quick on the trigger, and he backed the McNary-Haugen bill.* As for Frank Orren Lowden, his candidacy has been buried alive by recent developments in Illinois...
...stood thus, he has been shouldered aside by a burly, blatant, sideshow barker from the city, whose ambition is not to sit in the chair himself but to call the crowd, direct the act and lead the ballyhoo. Mr. Lowden's enemy of old, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, has spellbound the bystanders and gained mastery of Illinois, and perhaps a lot more Lowden territory, by an opportunism from which gentlemanliness is omitted with a frank grin. Nor is the Thompson grin as foolish as it looks...
...only startling upset recorded in the serving of the Thanks-giving Day football bill of fare, an aroused Brown eleven rose from the gloom of early-season defeats to hold a strong Colgate team, to a scoreless...
Yesterday the Harvard Dramatic Club placed on exhibition in the window of Leavitt and Peirce's an old revolver used on the Western ranges in the 'eighties by Major Frank North, Partner of Buffalo Bill, which is to be flourished by one of the thespian cowpunchers in "The Chisholm Trail" next month...
...when E.W. North was a young cowboy riding for Colonel Cody (Buffalo Bill), he used this gun to make the last sanctioned killing of wild buffalo on the short grass lands of Nebraska...