Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political air was full of similar sentiments, expressed for various reasons by Republican statesmen in Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts. Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him. For example, in Chicago, Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson was frankly borrowing the Coolidge virtues as window-dressing for a campaign in behalf of discredited Governor Len Small...
...Debated and finally adopted the conference report on the radio bill calling for "equitable" wave, wattage and time assignments; sent the bill to President Coolidge...
...long conference on the tax-reduction situation. Leaving the White House, Secretary Mellon declined to divulge what he and the President had decided was to be the Treasury's specific recommendation to the Senate Finance Committee when the latter begins hearings on the House's tax bill next week. He said only that tax payments in the first quarter of 1928 seemed so far to justify the Treasury's original estimates of the surplus, and the tax cut it would make possible this year...
...Passed Senator Caraway's bill requiring Federal judges to submit their charges in writing to juries before the closing arguments of counsel...
...parade of 2,000 men and women formed one morning last week below Capitol Hill and plodded grimly up it. Defying policemen, swarming into the House Office Building, they engulfed the caucus room where some Congressmen were about to hold a hearing on a bill. Neither anarchists nor Anti-Salooners, these lobbyists were white-collar workers in the Government?meek, long-suffering driven to desperation (they said) by "genteel poverty " They told stories of death by starvation, of "coffin and graveyard clubs, of collections for funerals?by-products of life on $1,200 per year. The House Civil Service Committee...