Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of these two simple facts, the Treasury Department long ago decided to reduce the size of the one-dollar bill from 7.7 in. by 3½ in. to 6% in. by 2⅝in., thereby saving the U. S. Government some $2,000,000 annually (TIME, June...
Will this Administration bill satisfy farmers and legislators who favor the McNary-Haugen bill...
...will not?was the opinion of Senator Capper of Kansas, publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital and Capper's Weekly (farmers'tabloid), who last week visited President Coolidge at Rapid City. Senator Capper believes that the equalization fee is essential to farm relief, hopes that a compromise bill can be agreed upon 'by the Administration and the McNary-Haugenites...
...such occasion Baron Tanaka realized during the night that he had inadvertently set the house on fire. Sobering instantly, be ordered the geisha girls out into the street, and personally organized and directed the men-servants in carrying out furniture and extinguishing the fire. When a bill for the damage he had wrought was presented, Baron Tanaka caused each item to be verified by shrewd appraisal, then paid the total swiftly in cash...
...Professor Charles Austin Beard, historian, formerly of Columbia University, ridiculed President Coolidge's "wearing cowboy breeches and fishing with worms." He predicted an alliance between the South and West as defense against the Eastern capitalistic control of politics. He defended the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill as "an experimental adventure...