Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farm Relief. The McNary-Haugen bill (TIME, Feb. 14), for three years a thorn in the side of Congress, was put through both houses by a defiant farm bloc which crushed the Administration cohorts...
Radio Control, the long session of the 69th could not agree on "An Act for the regulation of radio communications"; the short session did. Last week with his signature President Coolidge made the White-Dill bill into law. A commission of five will regulate radio for one year; thereafter the Secretary of Commerce will be acting tsar (TIME...
Banking. The McFadden-Pepper branch banking bill, another hangover from the long session, was approved (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week the President signed it. It enables national banks to compete more effectively with state banks in branch banking activities. To it was attached a significant rider which renews the charter of the Federal Reserve Banks for an "indeterminate" period after...
...bone of contention between the "Big Navy" men in Congress and the President. In this struggle it was the regular Republicans who led the revolt against the President. At first, in the House the revolt was quelled by a few votes; the cruisers were ousted from the Navy appropriation bill. The Senate put them back on. Then the House agreed with the Senate against the President...
...that the reform wave of the last two decades, which would create laws and Federal bureaus to cure every popular ill, is mischievous. If this is continued to its ultimate complexity, every time a citizen has a toe ache he will write to his Congressman to put through a bill creating a staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner...