Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McNary-Haugen Bill is the most famed remedy for the farmer's ills. Its most easily comprehended elements...
...arguments in favor of the bill are quickly summed up by saying that most of the farm bloc wants it because it believes that most of the farmers believe it will make them richer...
...direst opponents of the McNary-Haugen Bill are opponents of all government-going-into-business schemes. The biggest farmer in the world is Thomas D. Campbell of Montana. As an important example he is vital to any farm discussion. He says, in effect, that the very idea of "a farmer" is obsolescent foolishness, that he ought to be put in a museum along with the dodo and the cobbler and the individual candlestick maker...
That was what the Allies did last week. Marshal Foch gave Germany a clean bill of disarmament; and forthwith Article 213 of the Treaty automatically operated to transfer supervision of German armament from the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission to the Council of the League of Nations...
Authors McNary & Haugen. The Senator joint-author of the McNary-Haugen bill is Charles Linza McNary who did not stay down on the Oregon farm where he was born. Leland Stanford Jr. University (Calif.) and private tutors educated him. A lawyer and gentleman, he became Dean of an Oregon law school, whence he was elevated to the bench. In Washington, the characteristic thing about him is not that he is Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee but that he is a member of the Committee on Committees. The latter requires political finesse, conversation (not oratory), the dispassionate manipulation of other...