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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill allowing application for adjusted service certificates (War Bonus) up to Jan. 2, 1930. (The previous time-limit expired Jan. 1, last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Adopted a conference report on the bill reducing postal rates to 1920 and 1921 levels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...Rejected the House resolution to adjourn May 27. (The Senators were tied, 40 to 40. Vice President Dawes cast his vote to keep Congress sitting. Friends of the Boulder Dam Bill were pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Jun. 4, 1928 | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...therefore obliged," wrote President Coolidge last week, reverting, after some 5,500 more emphatic words, to the formal executive monotone, "to return Senate Bill 3555 . . . without my ap-proval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fee, Fie, Foe, Farmers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Another name for Senate Bill 3555 was the Surplus Control Act and another, as everyone knows, was the McNary-Haugen Bill, and another, according to some advisers of the U. S. Farmer, was "Salvation." The name finally applied to it by President Coolidge, as to its predecessor of last year, was, in effect, "Monkey Busi-ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Fee, Fie, Foe, Farmers | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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