Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...therefore return the bill without my approval."-Calvin Coolidge. The bill had been passed by the Philippine legislature and repassed by a two-thirds majority over Governor General Leonard Wood's veto. It proposed to hold a plebiscite among the islanders on the question: "Do you desire the immediate, absolute and complete independence of the Philippine Islands?" Under the organic law of the territory, the President of the U. S. has final authority on all bills passed by the native legislature. Hence, there will be no plebiscite and independence in the Philippines is still a remote subject...
...headquarters, the Mayor-elect regaled reporters and press agents: he would establish an America First Association in every state in the Union; he would "show King George V where to get off"; he would be "Big Bill the Builder"; he would run the gangsters out of Chicago and let them go to St. Louis, Detroit, New York; he would "make the streets safe so that women and children can go to the movies at night"; he would not let the police go "sniffing around for home brew"; he might go after the presidency...
Signed the bill authorizing construction, before June 30, 1928, of one cruiser, six destroyers, five submarines, one special mine-laying submarine, and two despatch vessels...
...wholesale consumption. The element of force is still predominant in this twentieth century attempt to bring about the reign of virtue, but the force instead of being externally applied, as through law, is to be internally administered by means of education. The proposal in its concrete form, is a bill introduced in to the Nebraska State Legislature, by State Senator Allen S. Stinson, a former school teacher, providing for courses in "common honesty, morality, courtesy, obedience to law, respect to the flag, respect for parents and the home, and the dignity and necessity of honest labor," to be given...
...outdistancing a Liberal, the re-vote would be between the Conservative and the Laborite only. Since the followers of the dropped Liberal would then be more likely to swing to the Conservative than to the Laborite, it is to the advantage of the present Conservative Government to get the bill through...