Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Furnace Co. case last week bobbed up before the U. S. Supreme Court for tho third time. It involves the right of the Federal Trade Commission to compel manufacturers engaged in interstate commerce to supply monthly information concerning the condition of their business. The Supreme Court ruled that a bill enjoining the Trade Commission from enforcing its orders should have been dismissed by the District of Columbia Supreme Court, jurisdiction lying not with the courts but with the U. S. Attorney General. The decision, limited to the technical question of jurisdiction, leaves the Trade Commission's power still undefined...
...breakfast at No. 15 Dupont Circle, President Coolidge, Senator McNary of Oregon (coauthor of the vetoed McNary-Haugen farm relief bill) and sundry powers of the Republican party shook hands all around. "We will pour balm on the farmers' wounds. Senator McNary will go scouting in the West and report to the President next summer with a compromise bill that will satisfy agriculture and not vex industry. Congress will pass the bill next winter," said last week's breakfasters in effect. Such strategy was predicted three weeks ago (TIME, April...
...Received notice from Premier Baldwin that his Cabinet will fulfill one of its major pre-election pledges by introducing, after the Easter recess, a bill enfranchising all women above 21, whereas 30 is the present minimum voting age for women...
...week by famed Conservative Editor James Louis Garvin of the Observer,* who wrote ominously of Premier Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet: "The Diehards? have jumped on the box seat of the Conservative coach and are whipping the team to the devil. The Cabinet's introduction of the trade union bill [TIME, Feb. 21, 28] which proposes to make a sympathetic strike illegal, virtually forbids picketing and isolates the civil service from the general labor movement, is the act of a Government riding for a fall...
Friends of President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland have a tactful way of saying that "Pictures really don't do justice to his appearance." Not so speak and write the President's enemies. Therefore the Government announced last week its drafting of a bill providing that "attacks on the President's personal appearance shall be punishable by imprisonment up to five years...