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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed (for the third time since 1922) a bill raising to 75% of their active service pay the retirement pay of 3,030 emergency Army officers who were disabled 30% or more in the World War; sent it to the House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Senate Week Mar. 26, 1928 | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...sold out the U. S. farmer to the English. He depressed wheat prices. He killed the McNary-Haugen bill. Besides he is ineligible for the Presidency. He would spell eight years of misery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Burnt Brand | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

Into the House, where gentlemen were delivering themselves of opinions on the pared-down Naval Building Bill, strolled Curtis Dwight Wilbur, towering Secretary of the Navy. With a smile here, a nod there, he took his amiable way to a seat in the front row of the chamber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Visitor | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

After having been before Parliament for seven years, the Social Insurance Bill was finally passed, last week, in time to win votes in the general election scheduled for this Spring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: At Last | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Nicaraguan Chamber of Deputies declared unconstitutional and voted down 23 to 17, last week, the bill which would have authorized U. S. supervision of the Nicaraguan election, next Fall (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Triumphant Lights | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

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