Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pocket veto" (failure to act on a bill ten days after receiving it, Congress having ad-journed), the President killed a bill to increase the pensions of Civil War widows, over 75 years of age, from $30 to $40 a month...
...this was no quarrelsome oligarchy in session. It was simply the distinguished Senate of the State of Nevada, representing 77,-407 people at Carson City. The majority of nine that finally prevailed, defeated a bill, passed by the Assembly, to rip the state wide open again for gamblers able to pay license fees of $1,000 per table. The same assembly and senate were caught napping-or so they said-in the small hours before adjournment, by a slick lobby of lawyers and hotelmen, who got a committee to change "six months" to "three months" in that phrase...
...Public School No. 58, Manhattan, have devised a discipline, published last week, of fining each school child five cents for each "ain't," "he don't," double negative, etc. The punishment of the child is thus visited upon the parents. One small boy ran up a bill of 40c, obliging his mother to invent eight errands for him to run at a nickel per errand...
Plato's Republic was to be ruled by men who took leadership as a necessary duty, rather than as a pleasure. Democracy in his mind rated only next to tyranny as the poorest form of government. The McNary-Haugen bill put through merely to discredit the administration, advice of Joseph Daniels to the democratic party that they base their 1928 platform on Republican corruption, Haines' recent reappointment --all these go to suggest that Plato was right...
...McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill...