Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with the president of the Mississippi River Commission) to oversee the work. However, the Jones bill called for $325,000,000, or some 31 millions more than the discarded Administration bill. It called for all this outlay from the U.S. Treasury, local communities contributing only one third of the costs of raising old levees to their proper level, and the land for new levees. Congressmen from...
...Coolidge. The "Coolidge-anyway" movement, revived last fortnight as a local expedient in Illinois by Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, drew another breath last week when National Republican Committeeman Charles Dewey Hilles of New York stepped out of President Coolidge's study one day and said: "Mr. Coolidge will be voted for in the Kansas City convention whether he is placed in nomination or not." President Coolidge did not call Mr. Hilles back to reprove him, nor was any quietus put upon the transparent ballyhoo in Chicago, the immediate purpose of which was to strengthen...
...Passed a bill authorizing a Lindbergh medal to be struck, a gold original to be given to the subject, bronze copies to be sold to the public; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing Col. Lindbergh to accept decorations from foreign governments...
...order, remind his colleagues that they have strayed far from the matter theoretically under discussion, call for a vote, or move an adjournment. His legislative efforts, if they can be called legislative efforts, are chiefly of a domestic nature. In the last session of Congress he introduced seventy-six bills. Sixty-nine of them were pension bills. Five were bills to settle private claims. One was a bill to provide an Indian memorial at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. And the other was a bill to create the most innocuous of all farm boards...