Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of the House bill, Representative Frank R. Reid, is from Illinois. Fortunately for the President, Chairman Martin Barnaby Madden of the House Appropriations Committee is also from Illinois* Mr. Madden was called to the White House for a conference with Mr. Reid, Chief of Engineers Jadwin and President Coolidge. He emerged as the Coolidge spokesman for a compromise...
This move took a lot of wind out of the next figure on the scene, who was none other than Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago, self-anointed savior of the Mississippi Basin. He blustered into town calling the Coolidge compromise plan "absurd," saying he had come (as chairman of the Thompson-invented Flood Control Conference) to put over the Reid bill. President Coolidge invited him to luncheon. When he heard about the Madden appointment and President Coolidge's willingness to waive the question of State-shared costs, except in principle, for the present, so that work...
...Passed a bill sponsored by Chairman Butler of the Naval Affairs Committee to afford Gold Star Mothers and unremarried widows two-week trips (first class) to U. S. cemeteries in Europe at Government expense, any time within three years after July 1, 1928; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Postmaster General to contract for transportation of mail into U. S. possessions and foreign countries by air; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing 10,000 silver half dollars commemorating the 150th anniversary of Captain Cook's discovery of Hawaii; sent it to the Senate...