Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There remained civil suit to recover from Mr. Small and the Curtis estate, an amount placed by the state at $1,025,000. Because Governor Small disputed many items in the state bill, a Master in Chancery was appointed to report on the exact sum owed. Last week the approaching Chancery decision brought the six-year-old case once more into black, streaming headlines...
...avert this threatened unpleasantness, the Governor's friends introduced a bill giving the Governor as well as other state officials immunity from quo warranto proceedings. Critics questioned the constitutionality of the measure, but the Illinois Senate speedily passed it. Last week it came up in the House, on which occasion Representative Miller made his comparison between the Governor and Judas and his remark about hands reaching up to the shoulders. Despite these criticisms, the House passed the bill, 108 to 29, and Governor Small speedily signed...
...professional orator, listened admiringly to General Superintendent F. Scott McBride of the Anti-Saloon League, who told all the Wets to "go out in the Atlantic Ocean, build an island of your beer kegs. . . . This Governor of New York," continued Mr. McBride, "who nullified state rights by signing a bill to repeal his state enforcement act, wants to transfer his activities to the White House. Are we going...
...panic. But out of respect to the memory of its saucy ancestor, Americana, be it recorded that William Collier calls Charles A. Lindbergh a "fly-by-nighter," that Marie Cahill recites a telephone monologue, that Evelyn Bennett dances like chained lightning, that Knox Herold catches the stern spirit of Bill Hart in a movie burlesque. Miss Bennett,* whilom "Baby Eva Tanguay" of vaudeville, looks like a street cherub with the legs of a high-jumper. So pronounced is her dancing ability, it is a shame she is allowed to spoil her effects by squeaking forth in song...
...Metcalfe, 68, for 31 years dramatic editor of Life, then of Judge, then of the Wall Street Journal; in Manhattan. In 1906 he was barred from 47 theatres because of his criticisms. He took the matter through the courts, but the Court of Appeals upheld the managers. Subsequently a bill was passed at Albany making it a misdemeanor to refuse to sell a theatre ticket...