Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years I have been aware of the subtle, un-Christian influence of this song, The Star-Spangled Banner, and of the very evident use which is made of it to stir up sentiments inimical and hurtful to every ideal which Americans cherish. The fact is, that each time a bill has been introduced in Congress, seeking to .legalize 'The Star-Spangled Banner as our national athem, Congress has refused to give its sanction...
Arrived in Vienna one Carl Tucker, Manhattan pianist. He told how one Bill Cannon, Standard Oil Co. driller, had ignited through friction the deepest oil well at Moreni, Rumania. Cannon immediately ordered all the men to leave the danger zone. As he himself fled from the roaring flames, an angry Rumanian crowd attacked him for causing the fire, now rapidly spreading. Cannon's revolver, however, cowed them...
...Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after a dull debate by a vote of 263 to 98. The provisions of this measure empower the Government to prevent unemployment benefits (doles) from being improperly obtained. The Labor Party opposed the bill because it will deprive 70,000 persons of benefits which...
...point to be noted, however, is that Britain and France were permitted to add what they had deducted from Belgium to their reparation bill against Germany. Whether that claim will ever be fully paid is debatable. But however much Belgium bled for the world, the attitude of the U. S. remains inexorable that all debts must be paid by the contracting parties and not balanced against, nor added to, a debt owing by another, which is what Britain and France have tried to do. Belgium has evidently decided to pay; although, in the words of Foreign Minister Vandervelde, leader...
English manufacturers have to pay just as much as Americans, but since the "U. S. is using 70% of the world's rubber supply, she is hard hit. Two years ago the U. S. paid less than $200,000,000 for British rubber. This year the rubber bill will probably go over $400,000,000 - two and a half times as much as Great Britain pays the U. S. annually on her War debt...