Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debated a bill of $89,000,000 appropriations for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor; passed it; sent it to the Senate...
Debated a bill of $272,000,000 appropriations for the Department of Interior; passed it; sent it to the Senate...
...wish to change the volume of the program. It only meant to make sure that the ships authorized (25 light cruisers, nine destroyer leaders, 32 submarines, five aircraft carriers) shall be laid down in five years and completed in eight years. Toward this end, the Committee erased from the bill drafted by Secretary Wilbur a clause giving the President authority to suspend building in the event of a naval limitation conference...
Since 1887, the emphasis of I. C. C. actions, and of laws to back up the actions, has extended from the first-named function (rate-making) to the third-named (scrutiny of financial structures). In 1906, for example, the so-called Hepburn Bill finally gave the I. C. C. power to fix rates. Whereas in 1920, the Esch-Cummins Act, which returned the railroads to private control after the War, invaded whatever "private rights" a "public utility" may have, by requiring the railroads to pay the Interstate Commerce Commission one-half their profits above 6%. This so-called "recapture" clause...
Appeals were made for funds to maintain a second clinic in Manhattan, to support of a birth control bill for New York State...