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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Adopted the Conference report on the McNary-Haugen Farm Bill; the Bill went to President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Adopted the Conference report on the Jones-White Merchant Marine Bill; the Bill went to President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Unanimously passed a bill to give Mrs. Woodrow Wilson a pension of $5,000 per annum; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...Passed a bill appropriating $99,152,885 for deficiencies occurring during the present session including $2,353,747 for U. S. Marines in Nicaragua; $50,000,000 to carry out the Alien Property Act; $6,235,000 for purchase of the Cape Cod canal; $5,000,000 for District of Columbia realty; $17,513,500 for Federal buildings throughout the land. The Bill went to the Senate. It brought the public moneys voted this session to a total of 3.3 billions exclusive of 1.38 billions in permanent appropriations. Total appropriations were 4.1 billions last year. Of the half-billion increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week May 28, 1928 | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

...case of the Power lobbyists and the House consented to substitute the words "fixed nitrogen" for "fertilizer." The U. S. would make, as it did during the War, the ingredient of fertilizer and ammunition, not the finished product. Government operation of the power plants was retained and, as the Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power corporation was set up. Any power left over after nitrate-making may be sold to the neighboring South at cost. Also, a new $25,000,000 dam was provided, 200 miles upstream from Muscle Shoals on Cove Creek in Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowshare | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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