Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...around the White House table without putting in extra table-leaves. Last week there was a series of breakfasts at which the guests were groups of Congressmen 13 strong. Most notable was the Tuesday morning breakfast, attended by Senators sharing President Coolidge's antipathy toward the Jones shipping bill. For all the breakfasters' palavering, the bill passed the Senate that afternoon...
...Debated a bill to appropriate some 400 millions to maintain the Army, including provisions for better barracks, bigger meals...
...bill to penalize the use of certain traps and other devices for the capture of fur-bearing animals, camp up for a hearing at the State House yesterday, and Commander Breck was the chief speaker in a heated argument. Backing up his statement more definitely, he told the CRIMSON reporter that after studying the subject carefully for three years, and collecting data from every source, he could now announce that approximately 100,000,000 dumb animals were being slaughtered in agony every year...
...Churches of Christ in America, in a sense, supplies this want. Last week, while its representatives were meeting in Cleveland, a measure sponsored by the Federal Council and the Interna-tiona] Council of Religious Education came before the New York State Legislature at Albany. This was a bill of incorporation for the Religious Education Foundation, an organization
...figure, because her refusal to marry was based partly on her unwillingness to accept the conventional limitations of femininity, she has been remembered. Her influence in succeeding generations has been powerful and, in the main, propitious; although today she receives the same reverence that small boys tender to Buffalo Bill, from wretched demimondaines who imagine that their dreary chirpings, their horrid -amusements bear a close resemblance to the more graceful if less temperate indiscretions of the immortal Ninon. The history of her long and erratic career (1615-1705) is well recounted by Author Austin, without evidence of vast research...