Word: rider
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fortnight ago the House attached to an appropriations bill a rider stipulating that no part of the funds provided therein should be used to pay the salaries of three men called "radicals" by the Dies committee. In effect, unable to have-at the President, the House was trying to knock off three small-fry New Dealers. One was Robert Morss Lovett, 72, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, oldtime liberal, war horse of pacifism, longtime English professor at the University of Chicago.* The other two were FCC employes: Psychology Professor Goodwin B. Watson of Columbia and William E. Dodd...
...document the latter charge, Mr. Ickes pointed out that the House (Kerr) subcommittee which originated the rider ousting and besmirching the three officials had: 1) examined Mr. Lovett in secret session, for only two hours, on only one day's notice; 2) supplied him with no advance specification of the charges to be brought against him; 3) not permitted him to bring counsel, or to summon witnesses in his behalf; 4) provided neither him, nor the Interior Department, nor the Congress with a transcript...
Convinced, the Senate voted out the rider, went to conference with the House determined not to yield...
Judy Johnson inherited her horsiness from her father, Trainer Ed Johnson, who saddled many a stake winner, both here and abroad, for such eminent turfmen as the late William C. Whitney, Foxhall Keene and John McEntee Bowman. Little Judy was a capable rider at the age of eight, helped her father break in yearlings by the time...
...Senate put a rider on the appropriations bill preventing any university from having a public-relations agent...