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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated, with much confusion, the Senate's farm relief bill; passed it; 204 to 121; sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Debated the Senate's $250,000,000 bill to rehabilitate the U. S. merchant marine; amended it to facilitate the sale of Government-owned ships; passed it; sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Amended the House postal rates bill, restoring the 1920 rates on second class mail (25% to 40% lower than present rates) ; passed it; sent it to conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...Passed the House bill to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to designate as repositories of public money any State banks or trust companies belonging to the Federal Reserve System...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week May 14, 1928 | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

...dollar bill was discovered tucked away in the pocket of an old tuxedo, and though those in charge have been striving tirelessly to discover the owner and have found any number of candidates, they can find no one able to identify the bill definitely. A brand new suit was unearthed from the pile, but before it could be spirited away by an aspiring colector, a student, showing sings of much gnashing of teeth and tearing of hair, burst into the building and carried off the garment in triumph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pianola Rolls, Lampoons, Ten Dollar Bill, Telephone Directory, New Suit-All Taken in P. B. H. Clothes Drive | 5/10/1928 | See Source »

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