Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave me a subscription to TIME, which I read weekly with conscientious, but sincere, interest. Now at the dinner table I am voluble with the latest gossip- of the Prince of Wales, Henry Ford and Lena Stillman, and I look bored, but not blank, when the McNary-Haugen bill is mentioned. Last week I had just finished reading TIME from red cover to red cover, felt buoyantly well-informed. The doorbell rang, and there was the mailman with another edition of TIME. Oh dear! Yours, till my subscription runs...
...Dail, much as is "Tay Pay" O'Connor in the House of Commons. Able, quiet, indomitable, he is a seasoned parliamentarian. With hair almost white and grave, beetling brows, he presents a picture of the serious, handsome, ideal statesman. Many a time has he prevented a bill from being rushed through the Dail without discussion, when his young, inexperienced henchmen were unaware of what was happening, and thus put a spoke in President Cosgrave's governmental wheels. And if in the Dail respected as an "enemy" of the government, he is almost loved in the lobbies. His upright...
...currency (the $10,000 bill is the highest denomination) will eventually be issued in the 6⅛ in. by 2⅝ in. size...
...have steadfastly and courageously refused to swear an oath for five years decide to swear it in such ignoble fashion now?" A sufficient answer is that early last week the Free State Government headed by President William Thomas Cosgrave jammed through Parliament the Public Safety Bill under which the seats of deputies who do not take the oath may be declared vacant and a by-election ordered to fill them?no candidate being allowed to run unless he pledges himself to take the oath if elected...
...passage of this bill thus left the Fianna Fail only three options: 1) political extinction; 2) revolution; 3) taking the oath...