Word: billâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...Mitsuru Toyama, head of the Black Dragon Society?an organization active in agitation against the U. S. after the passage of the recent U. S. exclusion bill???that permission was accorded to exhume the unknown patriot and give him what is virtually a national burial. In the military cemetery, a great tomb will be erected over the grave, and its position will be near the last resting place of General Nogi who distinguished himself in the Russo-Japanese War and who committed hara-kiri on the night of the funeral of the Emperor Meiji...
...although the President's reasons were foreknown, his restatement of them in the Coolidge vernacular did not lessen their force as an expression of the point of view for which he stands. Beginning his veto message, the second he had written, by rehearsing the provisions of the Bonus Bill???cash for those who would receive less than $50, 20-year endowment insurance policies for those who, by the length of their service, would receive greater amounts?he continued...