Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bascom Slemp, Secretary to the President, on Mr. Coolidge's behalf, addressed letters to prominent Republican members of Congress, urging them to secure and expedite the pass age of a bill for reorganizing the Executive branch of the Government...
...renting situation in Washington having reached the position of a heated controversy, the President instructed that a bill be prepared for presentation to Congress setting up a commission to regulate rentals in the interest of health and morals by means of the Government's police power. This brought the realtors of the Capital up in arms against him. An emergency measure for regulating rents (established during the War) is terminating; and tenants and landlords are at each other's throats and almost at the President...
...case was a bill in equity concerning the distribution of funds obtained by a foreclosure sale. The question presented by the transactions among the parties concerns the disposal of the funds resulting from the foreclosure sale. The properties sold were subject to four mortgages, no two of which covered identical security. The mortgages belonged respectively to one Ferson, to one Thurston, to Fortune, the defendant, and to Sexton, the plaintiff. The fund must be distributed in such a manner that the securities of the subsequent lieu-holders are preserved to the greatest possible extent...
...Charles M. Morgan and Albert G. Fortune, defendants. The latter will be represented by J. S. Myers 3L. and C. C. Williams R.L., of the Langdell-Marshall Club, while William Gresser 3L. and Melbourne Bergerman 3L. will be the attorneys for the plaintiff. The plaintiff, Sexton, brought a bill for an accounting of money due on two mortgage debts against the defendants, Morgan and Fortune, on which they had defaulted. The properties sold were subject to four mortgages, no two of which covered identical security. Though adequate at the time the liens were created, the security is now sufficient...
Said he (according to the intensely anti-Bolshevik Chicago Tribune) : "I am Bill Haywood, but I ain't a Bolshevik any more. I wish I had never run away from Leavenworth. I am hungry and homesick, and if I cannot find work in Constantinople I am going back to the United States. I had rather live in Leavenworth any time than Bolshevist Russia. It ain't a white man's country...