Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the U. S. Senators: ¶Amended and passed the House's bill appropriating some 540 millions to maintain independent executive branches of the government, such as the Bureau of Efficiency, the Civil Service Commission, the Smithsonian Institution. President Coolidge's salary ($75,000 per annum) was an item...
...Debated a bill by Senator Jones of Washington to keep the U. S. in the shipping business by requiring a unanimous vote of the U. S. Shipping Board to sell any government-owned ship; passed it, 53 to 31. Anticipating opposition from the House and a veto by the President, Senator Jones offered his measure as a "rider" to the already delayed and complicated Revenue Act of 1928, with which the Senate will not deal until next month...
...Orleans in an automobile one day last week. They were going to a horse race. At a rut in the road, the car lurched violently. Safe as mutton sat 300-lb. Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe of New Orleans. Startled into silence, 250-lb. Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson of Chicago shot aloft, collided with the top, came down with nose and lip cut and bleeding. Next day the Young Men's Republican Club of New Orleans adopted a resolution which would have salved worse wounds: ". . . We believe that by the time the Republican Convention...
Engaged. Miss Dorothy James Smart, blonde, beautiful model for hundreds of clothing ads; to Edward Lyman Bill, Manhattan publisher (The Music Trade Review, Talking Machine World, Carpet & Rug News...
...country's tobacco tax bill for 1927, as reported by the Government, was $387,427,881, of which $291,620,773 came from the little pale blue portraits of De Witt Clinton on the internal revenue stamps of cigaret packages...