Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Repassed over the President's veto, 66 to 14, the Senate bill giving disabled volunteer officers of the War retirement pay on the same scale as retired regulars; sent it to the House...
...Repassed over the President's veto, 57 to 22, the Senate bill authorizing $3,500,000 for roads through public domain; sent it to the House...
...Voted down 44 to 22, the 16-ship Navy building bill. (Chairman Thomas S. Butler of the House Naval Affairs Committee 72-year-old Pennsylvania Quaker, died in his Washington apartment within a few hours of the Senate's action. He had been prostrated since April by heart attack that followed his exertions in behalf of the Navy bill in the House. He had been in the House 31 consecutive years, longer than any other present member...
...Voted down, 51 to 16, the bill to give Army Air Corps officers a special promotion list. (Charles Augustus Lindbergh had spoken for this bill; Assistant Secretary of War Trubee Davison has opposed...
...Amended and passed the House bill to enlarge the U. S. barge service on the Mississippi and Warrior Rivers; sent it to conference...