Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Administration leaders had sought to detach the rider and obtain separate votes on it and the main measure. Their failure presages a floor clash between them and backers of Rep. Wesley E. Disney, D., Okia., sponsor of the amendment, who calls it the first wedge in a drive against "government by directive...
Confusion multiplied last week, and politics lent a hand to stir the confusion. The House Military Affairs Committee launched a bill forbidding induction of heads of families until all single men, all childless married men in each respective state had been called. A rider forbade induction by occupational groups, played hob with McNutt's plan to force nonessential workers into war industries...
...Ways and Means Committee Wesley E. Disney, Oklahoma's grey, square-jawed reactionary Democrat, hurried a bill to repeal the President's $25,000 salary limit. Wary of a veto, Disney made his bill a rider on the Administration's urgent legislation raising the statutory limit of the national debt to $210,000,000,000. Franklin Roosevelt would have to sign that...
Public Servant. In Red Hook, N.Y., Highway Supervisor Oliver E. Rider decided not to collect $1,225 owing him for road improvement, explained to the town board in a letter: "In view of the fine spirit of economy you have shown to the taxpayers of our town by doubling your own salaries and decreasing mine, I feel sorry for the taxpayers, and have arranged to make a present of this bill to the town...
...five years, under the good-natured, timid leadership of Conductor Barbirolli, it acted like a willful nag without a rider. When the directors supplemented Conductor Barbirolli with a string of famous guest conductors, the orchestra became more balky and independent than ever. The visiting conductors began to refer to its undisciplined and arrogant members as "the Dead End Kids." Meanwhile, one-man orchestras like Serge Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony and Frederick Stock's Chicago Symphony continued to take top honors. This year even the Philharmonic's board got around to thinking that the Philharmonic probably needed...