Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Resolved that the Commerce Committee should investigate the shooting of a Niagara Falls citizen by a Coast Guardsman (see PROHIBITION). ¶ Passed Senator Brookhart's resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate chain stores. ¶ Approved the House bill authorizing reduction of the air mail rate from 10 cents per half-ounce to 5 cents. ¶ Passed a resolution calling for an inquiry into the diversion of commerce from U. S. to Canadian ports. ¶ Passed bills to decorate the crew of the Atlantic-crossing NC4 and to strike a special medal for Fliers Chamberlin...
...march to Bucharest, Rumanian capital. ¶ Were astounded and chagrined by the charge made of His Majesty's Government that the oars now being used on lifeboats of the Royal Navy were purchased in the U. S. because prices there were lowest. ¶ Passed through second reading a bill which would make greyhound racing illegal unless licensed by local authorities. Speaking in behalf of the bill, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks revealed that there have been forwarded to him as Home Secretary some 1,600 resolutions adopted by groups opposed to dog racing...
...Began debate on the Votes For Flappers Bill (TIME, April 30) which had been passed earlier in the week by the House of Commons...
Blackbirds of 1928. Every small-time circuit travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time...
...Washington, the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency is considering a bill to pin another medal on the insomniac inventor. To this committee, one Mrs. Clara Louise Leslie, research collaborator, of Washington, D. C., protested: "It [the bill] would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent...