Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ahead of them stretches a flexible program. Nine apropriations bills must be passed before March 4 to finance the governmental machine after July 1. Boulder dam, 15 new cruisers for the Navy, the Kellogg anti-war treaty-these are the Senate's immediate job. In the House is gossip of a rivers and harbors bill, of reapportionment. Farm relief casts a streaky shadow of uncertainty across all plans and farther in the background lurks tariff revision...
Down a Manhattan pier to meet the Aquitania as she docked last week, moved a ponderous prodigy of a man. Customs inspectors looked his way and touched their caps from a distance. There could be no mistaking who it was-William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the 300-Ib. onetime Princeton footballer who, under President Wilson, used to be Manhattan's collector of internal revenue. Obviously, Mr. Edwards had come down to meet friends and, by adumbration of his old authority, facilitate their passage through the customs shed...
...Herter trunk an astonishing quantity of flowered cerise silk, lined with baby blue. The material eventually resolved itself into a gentleman's dressing gown of prodigious proportions, a dressing gown from Paris to fit only such a monster figure as that of William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards. This article, which was a present for Mr. Edwards, was nowhere mentioned in the Herter's declaration...
...Herter regained her smile. Mr. Herter was not so cheerful, especially when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...
Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...