Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surfeit of interesting lectures today. It ruffles a vagabond's self complaceney. Dr. Demos is speaking in Emerson A on "Egoism and Altruism". Professor Edgell in Robinson Hall is going to talk about two magnificent architects, Brunelleschi and Michelozzo, in Fine Arts 4a. In the Music Building, Professor Bill in his course on the Russian Nationalists is to talk about Balakirev, a strange but great musiclan. And then I remember Professor Lake's Old Testament lecture in Emerson D, and Professor Babbitt's lecture on the Romantic Movement in Harvard 6, and 1 give up in despair...
...week opened, the Deputies of the Left parties, composing former Premier Herriot's famed but unstable Cartel des Gauches, continued their efforts (amid great confusion) to get the Cartel finance bill voted item by item (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante...
...Government, with its own bill up its sleeve, stood grimly by and watched the Cartelist Deputies struggle to such negligible effect that M. Lamoureux, reporter of the Cartel measure, repeatedly threatened to resign in utter disgust...
None the less whenever Finance Minister Doumer attempted to come forward and effect a rational compromise on the various disputed items of the bill, the Cartelists rallied and rebuffed him by passing articles and amendments distasteful to him, notably an admittedly impracticable measure to require registration of all unregistered securities in order that they might be taxed more easily. This particular article passed the Chamber 287 to 233, although even its authors knew that it could never pass the Senate...
...labor of their wives and children as "a contribution to the state" and then deduct this nebulous "value" from their tax payments. The Deputies, not daring to offend their rural constituents, voted this measure 416 to 100. M. Jacques Dumesnil, one of the chief sponsors of the Cartel bill as a whole, groaned aloud. Protesting at the top of his lungs he cried: "Imbeciles! Scelerats!! All you are capable of voting is that the largest class of electors shall pay nothing!" As the tumult mounted to utter bedlam, the President of the Chamber put on his hat and stalked from...