Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cows complacently grazing over the site of one of the few U.S. victories in the War of 1812. But as decorous conduct is expected of the Secretary of War, and as he was hundreds of miles from New Orleans, Mr. Good had to content himself with drafting a bill and forwarding it to the House Military Affairs Committee providing that the U. S. take over and maintain this famed battleground, empowering him to send somebody out to chase away bovine desecrators...
...notice was taken of Dr. Hu's criticism of living Chinese statesmen. For example, he had recalled in Crescent Moon that President Chiang Kaishek, after conquering all China, has not yet kept his promise to give Chinese citizens a Bill of Rights. That telling criticism was ignored. Instead the Shanghai Committee concentrated on the fact that erudite Hu Shih had pointed out what seemed to him certain deficiencies and puerilities in the writings of the late famed Dr. Sun Yat sen, father of the Nationalist Government, sainted founder of the Party, who now reposes and is daily adored...
...Bill Jones was "why." He came to the city remembering how she had come "down to earth" for him on her vacation. In the city he married her, took her from Julies Freres. Raphael hated to see her go for more than business reasons...
Jones took Selina to the Midwestern college where he taught her chemistry. There she learned from a doctor that it would be dangerous for her to conceive a child. She was cold as well as unfit. Yet when Bill was killed in a laboratory explosion and Raphael came from Manhattan for her, she married Raphael and together they went traveling in Europe. By him she conceived at last, and a blood transfusion failed to save her life. An oracular gnome called Bolonowski, whose delicate embroidery seems to exude from her body like spider-thread, helps the author explain that these...
Reduced to essentials the argument understood to have been presented by Mr. Thomas at Ottawa last week may be stated thus: 1) Canada is smarting today at the certainty that she will lose much of her export trade to the U. S. when the new higher tariff bill is passed at Washington (see p. 13); 2) Canadian newspapers are clamoring that the Dominion should retaliate by raising her tariff on goods which the U. S. is anxious to sell to Canada; 3) Canada has been importing every year some 50 million dollars worth of U. S. coal; 4) If Canada...