Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not go into past regrets." Representative Charles A. Christopherson, farm-relief advocate, announced that all doubt concerning a third term had been swept away. The President made no speeches, no promises, receded not an inch from the posi-tion he took in vetoing the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill (TIME, March 7). But the honor of his presence, the potency of his office, turned suspicion into acclamation as hostility succumbed to hospitality. Should South Dakota love the President in November as it does in June, the state's electoral vote seems indeed assured...
...obvious, but forgiving, reference to the President's veto of the McNary-Haugen bill was found in a poem of welcome printed in the Rapid City Journal: We want you to know that we understand What you did you thought...
...your attention to a paragraph in TIME, May 16, in which it is stated that "Cody" Allen is a granddaughter of the late Col. Cody. This is an error as Miss Helen Allen is a daughter of a niece of Col. Cody's making her a grandniece. Buffalo Bill's granddaughter is Jane Cody Garlow, the daughter of Irma Cody Garlow...
Another news item began: "Watch for this man," relating the evil practice of a "large, well dressed man" who had slipped from a cab on Fifth Ave., ostensibly to change a $20 bill, and never returned...
Raymond v. Tilden. "Lean Bill's" first real test came when he met Louis Raymond, youthful champion of South Africa. Someone "spread a report" that Raymond had a sore foot, that the referee had agreed to postpone the match, but that Tilden had refused. So the crowd cheered loudly when Raymond slashed to victory in the first set and threatened again in the third. Tilden was criticizing the linesmen's decisions, barking brusque commands at the ball boys, playing magnificent tennis. Tilden won three sets & match...