Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...elements which had been scattered by Parnell's downfall ten years earlier. An Irishman, possessed of the peculiar Irish genius for oratory and parliamentary fencing, he compelled and retained for the Nationalist minority the alliance with the great Liberal party which forced the passage of the Home Rule bill a few months before the outbreak of the war. Redmond was deprived of the consummation of his triumph by the great events of August, 1914, and he saw the progress attained by years of unremitting effort lost through the stubborn resistance of the Ulstermen and the excesses of the Sinn Fein...
...bill is now before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs for consideration, and it is understood that they look favorably upon it. If it is approved by them, it will go to the House of Representatives and then to the President for ratification. If it is passed it will open a wide field for the development of effective training in the larger colleges of the country, and offer great possibilities for men to remain in college and receive at the same time the benefit of instruction in a perfected...
...bill has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, empowering the President to detail a certain number of commissioned officers, not to exceed 1,000 as professors of military science and tactles at institutions where one or more units of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps are maintained. The bill also provides that the President may detail at such institutions a number of enlisted men, not to exceed 3,000, as he may deem necessary to act as assistants in training the men enrolled in the R. O. T. C. Under this bill...
While investigations and accusations prevail at Washington, a bill to enroll men for the draft as they come of age waits for passage. In spite of the Administration's backing, little action has apparently been taken to hurry through this measure. Although we might condemn the lack of foresight in not providing for such a matter when the draft became law, yet the present need is for instant remedy. Within a short while, if we are to follow our schedule, another increment of draftees must be called out. Although there may be no necessity for summoning men outside of Class...
...bill to establish a supreme war council will be discussed in Congress today. Although the Administration objects to its passage, yet many men in both House and Senate favor the measure. The plan, in short, is to establish a board of about three members, which will supervise and co-operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover...