Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator McNary of Oregon informed the President that, contrary to the opinions of Secretaries Hoover and Jardine, the West was hostile to the Administration's farm program. He said he intends to reintroduce the McNary-Haugen farm bill, which was defeated at the last session of Congress, and which the President opposed...
...them in, takes out the plugs, shakes dabs of quicksilver out of the insides and eats them. "It was 'baker's bread'-what the quality eat; none of your low-down corn-pone." Huck is joined by Tom and Joe and together they speculate on how Bill Turner, drowned the summer before, was found by loaded loaves. Tom says its not so much the bread that found the body, or the quicksilver either, but some incantations that were said over them...
Mechanically-minded son of an Indiana miller, he none the less, to gain livelihood, had learned the printing craft. As a printer he worked among the Dakota Black Hills, at Minneapolis, at Chicago. There he founded the periodical Dairy Produce, fought against spurious oleomargarine. (In 1902 Congress passed the bill he demanded, the oleomargarine be not colored artificially.) He wrote a textbook, The Dairyman's Manual...
...given encouraging indications of its success financially. Here to or the duplication of effort in collection, and the inconvenience and annoyance, caused to the individual student, have redounded almost without exception to the detriment of the drives concerned. According to the Budget plan the Student Council will bill the individual student the amount designated on his pledge at the end of November...
...BILL NYE: HIS OWN LIFE STORY -Frank Wilson Nye - Century ($4). With illustrations by fellow cartoonists...