Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel A. Derieux, Wild Bill McCorkle. Editor Merle Crowell. American...
...Chief of Police Tracey vetoed the invitation, closed the hall. Undaunted, Mr. Baldwin-whose headquarters are the American Civil Liberties Union, Manhattan-came to town, marched with speechless strikers to the City Hall. "Go for 'em! Break 'em up!" cried a lusty policeman. "I am reading the Bill of Rights"* was all a striker could utter before a police sergeant shoved him from his perch on the top step and recited the Riot...
...first ten Amendments to the Constitution are called the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment says: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech . . . or the right of the people peaceably to assemble...
...oldest members, Melvil Dewey of Lake Placid, N. Y., believes the movement could be carried. Mr. Dewey employs phonetics with painstaking, sometimes cryptic thoroughness. At the Lake Placid Club, of which he is President, guests are familiar with such items as the following on his bill of fare: "krem of whet," "kofe," "fryd egz," "frut," "kak," "yc krem." In a letter apropos of articles on simple spelling, Mr. Dewey once wrote: "My sugjestion wud be a first articl as long as yu think wize that wud be folod now and then by short one. . . ." In this sentence, the word "long...
...additional difficulty arises from the fact that most of the bills recently put into circulation have been "green," not "cured" money. In order to stand rough usage, bills require a seasoning process which takes time, and which of late has had to be largely omitted. As a result, the life of the average bill recently issued is only four months, thus increasing the demands on the Bureau...