Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That the Jones Bill, to keep the U. S. in the shipping business, seemed unlikely to pass...
...Passed a bill increasing the ration allowance for enlisted men in the Army from 36? per day to 54?; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed a bill authorizing $4,283,716 for barracks and hangars at Army aviation fields; sent it to the Senate...
...bill is now before the State legislature to put an end to the arbitrary suppression of books by police sergeants; who have been called up it is said, by the Watch and Ward and asked to read and gasp "at page 256, the third paragraph, if they want to see real smut...
Thus Mayor Thompson has entertained a visiting potentate and made for good feeling between Chicago and one, at least, of the British Isles. In Chicago no bricks were thrown at President Cosgrave, for "Big Bill" had instructed his people that such procedure is not good form in receiving an honored visitor. Chicago has outstripped Boston in its cordiality to a British sympathizer; for Cosgrave is so looked upon by the Irish Republicans. His omission of a visit to Boston is generally ascribed to a fear of hostility from that direction in Boston. The situation is anomalous. But then they...