Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge scanned new measures, signed them, made, them law. As he toiled he waited for word from Capitol Hill where weary Senators carried a filibuster far into its second night. At last, impatient, he sent word to Senator Curtis, Republican floor-leader: It was imperative that the Deficiency Bill be passed before Congress adjourned. From the Senate no word, no more bills came for the Presidential signature. But 165 measures had been signed, many of them of wide importance. Among them were...
...bill for the erection of a monument at Kitty Hawk, N. C., commemorating the first successful flight in a power-driven plane by pioneer airman Orville Wright...
...bill creating a division of foreign commerce in the Department of Commerce to supply information on foreign markets to U. S. manufacturers...
...bill fixing the qualifications for voters in Alaska. (They shall be able to write in English and read the Constitution in English...
...bill creating separate bureaus for Prohibition enforcement and customs in the Treasury Department and putting Prohibition agents under civil service...