Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the launching of the new shell which has just been completed by boat builder "Bill" Lusk the Harvard navy has received its third additional craft since approximately a year ago. The boat was taken out by crew D of the A squad on its initial cruise yesterday afternoon and will probably be used from now on. It is expected that this boat or its sister craft, which was launched about a week ago, will carry the Crimson eight at New London in the race with the Elis in June...
Enlightened, Pacifist Paul-Boncour inspected the bill, found it good and "purely defensive," introduced it with all the weight of his influence and the persuasion of his lawyer oratory before the Chamber...
...Down with War!" chanted the Communists, drubbing and banging on their desks. They were particularly incensed at a clause which would make every man, woman and child in France liable to be drafted for combat or work behind the lines. "This bill proposes," cried a Communist, "nothing less than to make the French war-time slaves to French capital...
...Minister Painlevé said: "The Mass Mobilization Bill only insures daily collaboration between the economic and military defenders of France. . . . No effort should be spared to avoid the cataclysm which, the next time, would wipe out entire populations, without distinction to age or sex. Any statesman who does not dwell on these thoughts is not worthy of public trust...
...bill, subjecting all France, male and female, to the draft, passed...