Word: rider
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a $156,000,000 omnibus economy bill as a rider to the Legislative Appropriation bill; sent it to conference...
...Passed (31640-67) the legislative appropriation bill, after attaching a $30,000,000 omnibus economy rider; sent it to the Senate...
...strain of making weight, had won three Derbies and wanted another to break the record. He was wearing Mrs. "Jock" Whitney's fuchsia silks, as was Lavelle ("Buddy") Ensor, whom she had chosen to ride Stepenfetchit. Ten years ago, when he was regarded as the best rider in the country, Ensor's conviviality grew so pronounced that no trainer dared trust him with a mount. This year, reformed at 34, his comeback has been even more dramatic than Sande...
...into which a special committee had dumped a quarter-billion dollars worth of proposed chips and shavings from the government's lumber yard. Many of its items were approved by President Hoover as part of his "national economy program." As a non-partisan measure it was offered as a "rider" to the legislative appropriation bill...
...average Congressman, he and a majority of his fellows were determined to make legislative hash out of this measure. A special rule ("the damndest rule we ever got," according to Chairman Pou of the Rules Committee) was introduced to limit debate and amendments and thus hold the rider intact. But the House swept the "gag rule" aside and in a state of revolt reminiscent of the Sales Tax fight, plunged headlong into the redrafting of the economy bill on the floor. There was no predominant leader of this latest insurrection against authority. Neither was there any leader strong enough...