Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While the Government ought not to undertake to control or direct, it should supplement and assist all efforts in this direction. The leaders of the co-operative movement, with the advice of the department of agriculture, have prepared what is believed to be an adequate bill embodying these principles, which will be presented to Congress for enactment. I propose actively and energetically to assist the farmers to promote their welfare through co-operative marketing...
Banking. The McFadden bill for permitting national banks to establish branches under certain restrictions is still before Congress, with the national banks favoring its passage and certain groups of farmers and others opposing...
...insurgents also demonstrated their insurgency by voting with the Democrats to defeat, 210 to 194 a motion to consider a change in the rules which they made last year permitting 150 members by petition to discharge a committee of any bill which it is considering. The session then got down to business and gave the tax reduction right of way on its calendar...
...other hand, a man who, in spite of lack of physical superiority, makes himself a fair player through study, practice, and good brain work, may often prove an excellent coach. 'Bill' Reid is a good example of this. With no extraordinary physical endowment, he had the mental ability to make himself a good player, and later he had a genius for analysis and instruction in such a way that the average man understood not only the what, but, vastly more important, the how and why of his position. Reid was a human dynamo, and spared neither his men nor himself...
Androcles and the Lion and The Man of Destiny. The Theatre Guild has proceeded to the second bill in its promised Shaw cycle. They have taken the early satire on Napoleon (The Man of Destiny) and entrusted it to Tom Powers and Clare Eames. Neither the play nor the players seem up to the mark of Mr. Shaw and the Guild...