Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill is passed; the World Court is entered (so far as Congress is concerned); the Italian debt is settled; the tariff, farm problems, postal rates, reclamation difficulties, senatorial cloture, labor problems in the coal mines and on the railroad have grown cold on the stove for want of a little fire; prohibition fury is bubbling away to nothing in a futile investigation...
Some time ago Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, suave cosmopolite, one of the ablest financiers in the House, sponsored a bill for returning German property held by the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and compensating American claimants against Germany by a U. S. bond issue to be retired out of German reparations payments (TIME, Dec. 21, CABINET). Last week Representative Garner, the Democratic leader, attacked this bill and Secretary Mellon defended it. The New York Herald Tribune (Republican) promptly attacked the bill, saying that the German property should be sold to pay the American claims...
...evening the hundred gentlemen motored to the Picayune jail where the man, one Harold ("Doc") Jackson, was held as an accessory in the murder of two government entomologists found dead near Picayune. The grand jury, which convicted one Jesse Favre for the same murder, had refused to return a bill against Jackson (a white man). A jury's stupidity meant little to the hundred gentlemen. They waited outside the jail while two of their number opened the outer gate with acetylene torches-then the inner gate, then the door of Jackson's cell. The torch glare leaped into...
...directly at Mr. Haugen, who is an lowan, but at Mr. Tincher of Kansas that the President and Secretary Jardine nodded. Mr. Tincher has a bill which would create a Federal Farm Board and endow it with the use of $100,000,000 until 1950. This board would lend its funds to farmers' cooperatives, which would buy and hold the farm surplus so as to maintain farm prices whenever there was an excessive crop. The Administration was willing to indorse this bill, saying that it did not put the government in business...
...Haugen and his agricultural committee decided to report this Tincher bill to the House. But they went further. They decided also to report another bill, which has been dubbed the Haugen bill because of its resemblance to the McNary-Haugen bill which unsuccessfully vexed the last Congress. This new Haugen bill would set up a board similar to that proposed by the Tincher bill, but it would go further: it would endow the board with $350,000,000 instead of $100,000,000. and provide that if the farmers' co-operatives were unable to cope with the surplus problem...