Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last session of Congress closed with a Republican filibuster which prevented the passage of the urgent deficiency bill, left the Government without sufficient funds for normal activities?let alone flood relief. Assuming that there are 500,000 refugees and that there is $10,000,000 (the Red Cross relief fund) to spend on them, money available for flood relief would be only $20 per victim. By calling a special session, the Government could get both the money for relief work and the authority to spend...
...Chicago, the Council of Aldermen bumbled loudly when a bill was introduced to authorize fire-engine sirens on hearses. Undertakers had complained they were not receiving respect or public co-operation while following their profession...
...What's the big idea?" argued Alderman T. J. Byrne, opposed. "Nobody who is dead is in a hurry to get anywhere." Mayor William Hale Thompson ruled the bill defeated...
...Illinois state senate had passed the Kessinger bill, which will require that all Board of Trade transactions be reported openly. There can be no privacy, no secrecy. The Board had a battalion of hushers lobbying the state house of representatives to prevent passage of the Kessinger bill through that body. If the bill becomes law, grain traders can get an injunction to prevent its going into effect...
...state legislature is to consider a bill making grain elevators public utilities. All Illinois grain warehouses would be under joint control of the state and the Board of Trade...