Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile Senator Norris, insurgent Nebraskan, contemplates again the worthwhileness of political life, the betrayals, the corruption, the callow honors. He recalls the "treason" his Progressive friends played him some years ago when they backed the Kenyon packer bill instead of his own packer bill. That day he collapsed in the Senate. Since, he has remained inexcitable over the rehashed chatter, begun by Mr. LaFollette in 1924, to give U. S. politics another Progressive orientation. Feeling that most of the institutions they are combating are as firmly embedded as ever, he now, as in 1924, turns toward the recourse of soft...
...William Wilson made a favorable impression in the House while serving from 1907 to 1913, during which time he drafted a bill to create a Department of Labor. On its being established in 1913 President Wilson appointed him its first head. At an early age William Wilson had been employed in the Pennsylvania coal mines where his father, a Scotch immigrant, also worked. Eleven years discovered William a sturdy member of the labor union; 26, president of the District Miners' Union; 38, Secretary and Treasurer of the National Union of Miners (1900). Fortunate in a "common school education," honesty...
...1825eethed, and betrayed acute concern while the Lords debated the anti-strike bill jammed through the Commons by Premier Baldwin (TIME, July 12) to lengthen coal mine working hours temporarily from seven to eight so that the owners can offer a wage high enough to tempt the miners back to work...
...182Were informed by Viscount Cecil that the Government would not seek immediate ratification of its anti-strike bill, because certain (Yorkshire) mine owners had refused to offer their men what the Cabinet deemed adequate wages on the basis of the eight-hour day contemplated in the bill...
...Were apprised of the Yorkshire mine owners' capitulation to the Government in the matter of wages, and began to debate the bill...