Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate: ¶ After killing an anti-Sit-Down rider proposed by South Carolina's Byrnes (see p. 18), passed the Guffey-Vinson coal control bill; sent it to the House, which passed it last month, for action on minor amendments. Aimed to stabilize the sick coal industry (see below), the bill lacks the labor provisions which caused Supreme Court invalidation of the original Guffey Coal Act, creates a National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix minimum prices, enforce a code of fair practices. ¶ Passed the wheat crop insurance bill which provides an appropriation of $100,000,000 to establish...
Having salved their consciences by such objections, virtually the entire contingent of Administration Senators joined in killing the Byrnes' Rider by 48-10-36 - but only after Leader Robinson had promised that a separate Sit-Down resolution would get early consideration...
...Derby's box sat King George and Queen Elizabeth, who had the good fortune to bet a pound note on the winner. Feature of the race, which only seven of the 33 starters contrived to finish, was the outrageous behavior of a horse named Drim. Drim unseated his rider, ran on without him, caught up with the leaders, tried persistently to bite them until the race was over when he was caught irately pursuing Royal Mail to the unsaddling enclosure...
Indiana Has Champion Rider-Star...
...went to a very nice school where you called the principal "Father". He got a good education there, he met Hooker Beane, the son of the great international banker, and Jeremy Sloan, the heir to the great sugar-beet fortune, and he roomed with Weston, the brilliant young gentleman-rider...