Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy." When Secretary Wilbur submitted the "Big Navy" bill to Congress, the boom of billions echoed far and wide. At home and abroad the U. S. has been hotly accused of seeking revenge for the failure of last year's Geneva Conference, at which British and U. S. ideas on cruiser construction became deadlocked...
...opened the trial last week with a plea of not guilty. Then followed the troublesome task of selecting the jurors. Prosecutor Remy wanted to make sure no Klansman was chosen. The defense objected to barbers, because barbers have a grievance against Governor Jackson for pocket vetoing a barbers' license bill. Specimen testimonies of rejected jurors...
Senator Henrik Shipstead, 20th Century Minnesota dentist, in a Senate bill to amend the judiciary law, has translated the "external things of the world" into things "tangible and transferable...
Because of this translation, scores of bigwigs in the American Federation of Labor and many more representing U. S. manufacturers, railroaders and other employers, trooped last week to Washington to try to influence the Senate Judiciary Committee, which was pondering the Shipstead bill, in its decision as to how far man's paid services to man can constitute Property. Hot argument ensued...
...practical aim of the bill, which Labor backed, is to remove labor, as an intangible commodity, from the jurisdiction of equity courts and from control by court injunctions. The A. F. of L. men recited uses and abuses of anti-Labor injunctions, the effect of which has been to turn the anti-trust laws from organized Labor's blessing into Labor's bane...