Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husbandman's complaint, expressed through his representatives to the Senate committee, was specific: By raising tariff rates on manufacturers and raw materials as well as on agricultural products, the House bill had failed to diminish the gap of economic inequality between Industry and Husbandry. Louis John Taber, Master of the National Grange, stated it thus: Industry enjoys a 40% tariff protection; the House bill raised Husbandry's protection to 31%, another 9% must be forthcoming from the Senate...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris and Democratic-Leader Robinson the bloc constituted a powerful combination of votes virtually the same as had for so long tormented President Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against...
...strength which could be augmented by minor compromises, when the item-by-item voting comes. Senator Borah, in a thunderous speech, predicted the cement duty would add null to the cost of road building, denounced the glass schedules from "eyes to mirrors," vowed he would rather see no bill passed than that produced by the House...
...limited tariff coalition might well have had the support of President Hoover were it not for two miscellaneous items added to their tariff baggage. One was the Debenture Plan which, forced out of the Farm Bill, Senator Norris and his followers were now determined to tack on the Tariff Bill. The other was the proposal of Virginia's Senator Glass to impose a $5 tax on every $100 share of stock purchased for speculation. The test for "speculation" was to be whether the stock was held for less than two months...
Died. William A. ("Bill") McCabe. 69, Police Commissioner of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. confidential adviser of James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, at Poughkeepsie...