Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the White-Dill radio control bill and the McFadden-Pepper branch banking bill...
...President vetoed the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill. Telegrams swarmed into the White House-most of them congratulated the President; no one threatened to assassinate him. Meanwhile, on a horse in San Marcos Desert Camp, Ariz., sat Frank O. Lowden, farmers' friend and presidential aspirant. Said he: "There is nothing to be said at this time." Others were not so reticent. Governor Hammill of Iowa demanded that the next President be "in sympathy" with agriculture. Sixty-one Iowa legislators petitioned Mr. Lowden to be a candidate. Rabid farm organizations suggested a boycott on Eastern manufactured products. The East, complacent...
...night last week at 2:30 a. m., Mrs. Hiram Johnson, a weary spectator of the filibuster against her husband's Boulder Dam bill, looked down from the Senate gallery on 29 Senators. Some were sprawled out on the lounges, asleep; Floor Leader Curtis and some others were said to have been rolling dice; other Senators, bleary-eyed, were listening to Senator Ashurst of Arizona, who was talking about a number of things...
...chair. Vice President Dawes had left at 10 p. m. and Mr. Moses had done the heavy night work. Early in the morning Mr. Dawes returned. . . . At last, a quorum was present. But the filibusterers* kept the floor, allowed no one to move a vote on the Boulder Dam bill. Senator Hiram Johnson of California, co-author of the bill, had sat up all night trying to get a vote. The filibusterers were glad to have other Senators relieve them during the day with debate on Muscle Shoals, alien property and Prohibition bills. At 4:30 p. m., after...
Three days later, the Senate refused to apply the closure rule on his bill. The result: the Boulder Dam project is likely to be doomed this session. The question asked by many: what is the Boulder...