Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original Wilson men of Georgia, ran the state campaign of that year. In the White House, Woodrow Wilson made him Director of the Census Bureau, later put him on the Federal Trade Commission, of which he became chairman. In 1918 Senator Tom Hardwick was up for reelection, opposed by Bill Schley. The campaign was getting hot when Harris appeared with a letter of endorsement from Wilson. Harris won, was re-elected in 1924 (unopposed), will run again next year. A large portrait of Woodrow Wilson hangs in his office...
...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
...thoroughgoing Dry in speech and practice. He became famous last year for his amendment to the Second Deficiency bill, appropriating $25,000,000 extra for Prohibition enforcement. Although the amount was reduced the amendment carried...
Today's practice will be the final stiff workout before the men start tapering off for the opening game, only a light drill being on tap for tomorrow and a short signal drill filling the bill on Friday. With the line practically picked only the four backfield positions remain to be filled. Definite announcement of the eleven starting players will be made tomorrow...
...seems as though, despite the valiant efforts of the H. A. A., the surplus is doomed to continue on its upward path. Thanks to the failure of the steel stands to produce the estimated expense of $170,000., rather miserably letting the association down with a mere bill for $155,000., and to the fact that other items of expenditure have failed to come through as expected, the surplus, a several headed hydra, looms more ominously than ever to puzzle the minds of corporation potentates...