Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill providing postage reductions (see p. 10); sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill continuing the War Finance Corporation another year; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing the invitation of Pan-America to a conciliation conference in Washington this year or next; sent it to the Senate...
...bill before the House last week was designed to give U. S. industries immunity under the anti-trust laws in collective buying of crude rubber, potash, sisal "or other raw materials or products of nature." The opposition which sprang up declared that such a measure would injure the U. S. consumer. New York's vociferous Black sought to belittle Candidate Hoover, to whose warnings against the British rubber monopoly, the measure was traceable. Up stood Connecticut's tall Tilson, the Republican leader. He called attention to Premier Baldwin's announcement, the day before in Parliament, that...
Having added up March tax payments, scrutinized Congress' appropriations to date, and talked the matter over with President Coolidge, Secretary Mellon last week went before the Senate Finance Committee to announce what he thought should be done with the Tax Bill. The Bill which the Committee had received before Christmas from the House provided a tax reduction of $289,000,000 or 64 millions more than Secretary Mellon recommended last autumn...