Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...player-writer rule of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association. The question at issue is: May an amateur sportsman write, if he can? Can he commercialize sport by profiting from the literary value, if any, of a name which sport has made valuable? The literary fecundity of "Big Bill" Tilden, national tennis champion, has raised the argument. Hence the dapper Senator, hence the astute poet-reporter, hence the nimble polo player. No action will be taken until the next annual meeting of the Tennis Association in February...
...could lay hands on. It gobbled the hot potato whole and was willing, if necessary, to pay $1,000 for so good a meal. To a city full of irate financiers it said: "Resentment . . . is justified but belated. It should have been aroused more vehemently at the time the bill was pending...
...giving the torches and hats away this year, the Republican club is paying for all the parade for the first time on record. Formerly G. O. P. sympathizers had to pay themselves for their regalis, but this year, the club is footing the bill...
...Other Muscle Shoals bids now before Congress (and accepted by neither the House nor the Senate) include those of Hooker-White- Atterbury, the Allied Power Companies, the Union Carbide (TIME, April 28, May 12). Pending in the Senate also is a report from the Committee on Agriculture recommending a bill framed by the Committee's Chairman, Senator Norris. The Norris Bill (TIME, June 9) provides for continued Government ownership, gives the option of Government or private operation...
...America is sending us to Hell." Because of this unfortunate state of affairs (arising from the U. S. Immigration Bill) Viscount Kentaro Kaneko resigned as President of the America-Japan Society in Tokyo. For many years Viscount Kaneko was active in promoting American-Japanese relations. At the age of 71 he reflects that he is a Harvard graduate, class of '78, that he has held many political and semipolitical posts. In 1905, at the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War, he was sent on a mission to the U. S. in the capacity of Financial Commissioner. It was during...