Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Three gifts arrived at the White House in one day. One of them was a piece of paper representing 100,000 lb. of smiles. It came from the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at Stockton, Calif., and was a "way bill" representing a carload of smiles. It had been indorsed en route by many railworkers. The second gift consisted of two arrowheads from Fort Minis, Ala., presented by Representative Hill of that state, one to the President, one to Mrs. Coolidge. The third was a bushel of potatoes, "large Idaho russet," sent by the Idaho Chamber of Commerce and presented...
...Passed the joint conference report of the first deficiency bill. (Bill went to the President...
...bill which smacks of the most reactionary type of obscurantism has recently been presented to Congress by Senator Caraway. It forbids ambassadors cabinet ministers, secretaries or confidential associates of Presidents from publishing information concerning their official service. under penalty of a $1000 fine. Evidently designed to prevent the recurrence of such revelations as the House Memoirs, now appearing in the Boston Globe and the New York Herald Tribune, the proposed law would not only handicap future historical research but would deprive the public of correct knowledge of events with which their welfare is intimately connected...
Needless to say there is no pretense to seriousness. Mr. Dix, as Yale quarterback Bill Dexter, runs riot in the Bowl, then in the exclusive (sic) Prado Night Club, gets jailed, escapes, and elopes to avoid capture. That in brief is the plot, but it is the small bits of acting and the rather subtle humor that makes this movie worthwhile and really entertaining...
This service of the bill is thus unique and thoroughly agreeable. It simply provides for the removal of a universally recognized hindrance. In seizing the opportunity to eliminate this hindrance, those behind the bill are doing a favor appreciated by all interested in rowing as well as those who have come in actual contact with the present snarl of piles...