Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amendment to the Bonus Bill of 1924, permitting belated collection of War bonuses...
...signed remained the Muscle Shoals Bill, to put the U. S. in the nitrate and power business with its Wartime plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama. A "pocket veto" was urged, feared, hoped, predicted for this measure which the Congress took a decade to pass...
...through an all-night filibuster on the Boulder Dam bill; laid it over as first unfinished business of the Senate next session (see below...
...opportunist, who exercised his commercial virtuosity to get rich; who "is the only man since Roosevelt to understand the use of calculated indiscretion" in compassing political ends (cf. his purposeful reading of books on crowd psychology, his studied profanity); who last year tandem-hitched the McNary-Haugen farm-relief bill and the McFadden branch-banking and drove them through the Senate with consummate smartness...
...only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...