Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration...
...Prohibition Bureau reorganization bill, providing for stricter enforcement. It was passed in the Senate 55 votes to 27. Had Senator Copeland not voted for it, the bill would have failed...
...chemistry in the United States" (see p. 48). Chemistry Patron Garvan was also among those who have given a scholarship fund ($1,000 annually) to help the Johns Hopkins plan. The scholarships are to be established in every State. Other contributors so far include: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (Ohio), Bill Raskob Memorial Foundation (Delaware),* General Motors Corp. (Michigan), Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp. (West Virginia). The Edison "Genius Hunt" consists in finding in each State the high school student who has most distinguished himself in scientific subjects during the present school year. In August, Mr. Edison will give the 48 students...
Ideal would be the bank that had all deposits and no withdrawals. Utopian, of course, such an idea. Yet a long step toward it has been made in the organization of a new (as yet unnamed) trust company in Scarsdale. Unique feature of this bank will be a bill-paying service for depositors. When a bill comes to the depositor's home, it is approved, sent to the bank and paid by the bank out of the depositor's funds. Thus the depositor is saved the mental anguish of writing a check and Scarsdale tradesmen receive prompt remittances...
...proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter, William V. Griffin, Duncan Spencer; Henry Codman Potter, onetime assistant stage manager with the Theatre Guild. Listed as treasurer of the venture is ubiquitous, omniferous Publisher-Explorer...