Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treaty negotiations, thanks to Secretary Kellogg's inaction, were used as a pretext by the pacifist lobby in Washington, last winter, to prevent action on the Cruiser bill...
...President Smith, the malcontents ascended to a gallery, where they stamped, catcalled and finally picked a fist fight which made proceedings impossible. Roused, "Old Herbie" Smith dashed from platform to gallery, shouting, "I'm 65, but [to one of the Reds] I'll throw you out, Bill Allen...
Therefore when "that bloody rabbit bill!" came up, last week, landed and rusticating Peers bustled up to London, to defend the right of rabbits to be reduced only by authentic sportsmen...
...long and bitter debate ensued. The Marquess of Salisbury, speaking for His Majesty's Government, earnestly besought Their Lordships not to oppose a bill which Conservative farmers had been promised by Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, himself a landed country squire and rabbit owner...
When a division was finally. taken the "Rabbit bill" was found to have been defeated by two votes. It will, of course. become law over the heads of Their Lordships if passed three times by the House of Commons. Stupefied clerks of the House of Lords said, last week, that this was the first bill introduced by a Conservative Government to be defeated by Their Lordships in 80 years...