Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perfectly safe to assume that the bill passed will very largely carry out the ideas expressed by the President and that the measure will, in practically every one of its aspects, be the best that can be enacted in the interest alike of the producer and the consumer. And with that we shall be content...
Harangues. First, however, the leaders of the hosts paused to harangue their followers and enemies. Field Marshal Simmons leaped upon the breastworks and spoke first, for three hours. He charged the tariff bill with putting useless and ineffective duties on farm products many of which are not imported at all, with taxing, exorbitantly, the things the farmer buys, with taxing necessities of the public more than the luxuries of the rich, with increasing duties for industries already prosperous, with giving the President too much discretion to change tariffs under the flexible provision. Was it a farmers' tariff, he asked...
...shrill of his words had hardly died away when the faint voice of Generalissimo Smoot was heard. Asked he: Had not Candidate Herbert Hoover promised the American people limited tariff revision? He believed that this tariff bill was what the President had promised. The Democratic party was a low-tariff party with its past written all over the pages of tariff history. The Republican party alone ever gave the farmers any protection. No greater calamity could happen to the U. S. than to listen to the low-tariff advocates. So Generalissimo Smoot...
...newspaper, the two-year-old Portland Evening News, edited by Dr. Ernest Henry Gruening. It campaigned against "Insullism," propounded again and again the question: "Shall the voters of Maine become yes-men for Samuel Insull?" It estimated that the power interests had spent $300,000 for the export bill, that the opposition had spent less than...
...More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful. Each hopes to succeed Maine's Senator Arthur Robinson Gould in next year's election. These two sunk their teeth into the power export bill and pulled in opposite directions. Last week Maine defeated power export by a majority of some 10,000 votes in 125,000 cast...