Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the House's bill to continue the War Finance Corporation till next year; sent it to the President...
...Passed a bill to cramp the operations of "diploma mills" (mailorder "colleges") in the District of Columbia; sent it to the House...
...Debated the House's bill of appropriations for the Federal share of the District of Columbia's municipal government costs; amended it to increase the Federal share to 40%, or 15% more than the House had voted; passed it; sent it to conference...
Publishers and mail-order men applauded the House last week for passing, 220 to 0, a measure calculated to save them some $13,585,000 per annum in postage stamps. It was the long-awaited Griest bill, named for the Pennsylvanian chairman of the House Post Office Committee. It provided for a lowering of postal rates on second, third and fourth class matter. On the advertising sections of their magazines, for example, publishers would save from .25? to 2? per pound, according to zone, when they mail their publications out to subscribers. On postcards, which are used as much...
...Griest Bill, much hoped-for by publishers and mail-order men, went to the Senate. By some citizens it was viewed with alarm because it would increase the Post Office Department's chronic deficit from...