Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill raising to the rank of Lieutenant General, two retired Army officers, Major Generals Hunter Liggett and Robert Lee Bullard...
...Finished a long debate and finally passed Senator Norbeck's bill for migratory bird sanctuaries, omitting the provision requiring hunters to buy Federal licenses for $1 and limiting annual appropriations...
Congressmen do their hardest, most important work off the floor. The real storm centre of Flood Control last week, was in the House Committee room where the irresistible legislative urge was encountering the immovable Coolidge ultimatum (see p. 8). On the floor of the House, pending the Bill's actual reading, the debate was general. It became more general when stentorian Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin arose and pointing his large finger at a puffy, untidy figure in one of the back seats, demanded to know what he was doing there...
...come back and sit in the House during a debate on Flood Control, for the reason that Mr. Lorimer was personally interested in Flood Control. His William Lorimer Lumber Co. owns land in the area where the U. S. was to buy floodways under the terms of the pending Bill. Let Mr. Lorimer get out, roared Mr. Schafer...
...Because the famed Votes For Flappers Bill is perhaps the outstanding piece of legislation before the House (TIME, Feb. 20), Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was sorely nettled, last week, when Labor hecklers peppered him with questions designed to make him admit that the Flappers Bill is actually opposed by three leading members of his Cabinet: Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, and Secretary of State for India the Earl of Birkenhead...