Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Deficiency Bill ($203,000,000 for Government expenses) received President Coolidge's signature...
...Passed bills for constructing, and extending time for constructing, sundry river bridges. (I Passed the bill amending the statute of limitations, to increase legal immunity (TIME, Dec. 26); sent. it to the President. ¶ Passed bills authorizing 25 millions to purchase for the U. S. a triangle of land in the District of Columbia (at Pennsylvania avenue and B street), and 100 millions more for Federal buildings outside of the District of Columbia; sent them to the Senate...
Debated and amended the ALIEN PROPERTY BILL (TIME, Dec. 26); passed it, 223 to 26; sent it to the Senate...
...late George Hearst of California (U. S. Senator 1886-91), who once said: "I don't understand my boy Bill. . . but there's one thing I have noticed about him. When he wants cake he wants it and he wants it now." William Randolph Hearst got into the House of Representatives for two terms (1903-07). His effort to be Democratic nominee for President in 1904 fell flat despite his reputed expenditure...
Sudden and drastic was the passage by the German Reichstag, last week, of a bill raising the duty on imported automobile parts from 12% ad valorem to 28%. Enacted to take effect on Jan. 15, 1928, the new measure loomed, last week, as a deadly threat to five U. S. motor manufacturers* which have recently spent $12,000,000 on assembling plants and the development of sales organizations in Germany. Officials of the threatened U. S. group said, last week, that they had had a "working agreement" with the Ministry of Commerce that no such bill would be passed...