Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deck again at the Capitol when the House passed the 15-cruiser bill last year. He handed out yellow-bound pamphlets abusing the British, bristling with statistics to prove the inferiority of the U. S. fleet. Only a few Congressmen realized they were being supplied with second-hand arguments, the same material Lobbyist Shearer had used at Geneva. In the midst of his lobbying, he made this statement...
...morning last week Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, distressingly fatigued after months of tariff-writing, was marched to the front portico of the Capitol by a dictatorial movietone cameraman. He was instructed to make a speech on the Hawley-Smoot (tariff) bill. For an audience the cineman commandeered Senator William Edgar Borah, hastening by to the barber shop for a much-needed haircut. Senator Smoot extolled his bill. Senator Borah looked glum. When the speech ceased Senator Borah turned, walked away. Cried the cineman, no student of tariff politics...
...score of years U. S. equity law has hobbled Labor organization, has hampered its strike activities. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota offered a bill to revolutionize the use of injunctions. The Senate Judiciary Committee rejected it as unconstitutionally radical. With the aid of Senators Walsh of Montana, Norris of Nebraska and Elaine of Wisconsin, the A. F. of L. last week concocted a substitute bill which, if adopted, would change the whole character of labor troubles, strengthen strikes, compel employers to ground their injunction applications on legal proof instead of fears...
Should the A. F. of L. bill become law of the land, the public Labor policy of the U. S. would...
...bill would prevent the issuance of injunctions: 1) to prevent strikes; 2) to impound strike benefit payments; 3) to stifle strike publicity; 4) to block strike meetings. No strike could be construed in restraint of trade. Temporary injunctions would be limited to five days and then only if the complainant posted a large bond. Violation of injunctions (contempt of court) would be tried before a jury. Applicants for injunctions would have to establish their case, not by affidavits, as now, but by sworn testimony to which Labor could make answer. Enjoiners would also have to prove they had made "every...