Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jocularly Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin assured a huge caucus of women at London, last week, that Parliament will shortly enact the long awaited bill extending suffrage downward from women over 30 to young women who have topped 21 (TIME, Feb. 20). Said the Prime Minister, playfully indicating Home Secretary Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks who will pilot the bill: "He is the Joshua who shall lead you into the promised land...
...Chamber had been debating with approval certain changes and relaxations of the bill recently introduced to curb the activities in France of foreign oilmen (TIME...
Straightway the Minister of Commerce, suave attorney Maurice Bokanowski, rose to defend the bill. He did not deny that the Cabinet had received protests and intimations from Standard Oil of New Jersey, Royal Dutch Shell and Anglo-Persian Oil. Rising superior to this fact, he cried: "The State does not know the importers! The State is merely anxious to provision the Nation with oil to the best advantage...
After prolonged debate the Chamber concurred in this view, voting 335 to 185 for the bill in its new form. If passed by the Senate, it will leave the Standard, Shell and Anglo-Persian oil firms in virtual dominance of the French market, though theoretically curbed by a new licensing commission with limited powers...
Rain turned the red Georgia earth to clay. Manager Walter Johnson, drawn and underweight from influenza, sat on a bench in plain clothes and a raincoat and watched the Giants in the year's first game beat the Newark Bears, 8 to 0. Bill Terry, infielder, knocked a home run the first time at bat. "Gee, I wish I could get out and throw a few" Johnson said, shifting on the bench...