Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the Lenroot-Taber bill which prohibits importation of milk or cream except on permit from the Secretary of Agriculture...
...Vermonters, unable to find any single mountain upon which to bestow the name of their distinguished native son, have decided to christen four mountains "Coolidge Range." The bill to accomplish this, now pending in the Vermont legislature, originally included Killington, Pico and Shrewsbury Mountains. Last week Salt Ash Mountain was added to "Coolidge Range...
...President received from Congress the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill, discussed it with his Cabinet, read it, pondered long-thereon...
...demonstrates again that young writers are likely to do their best work when they devote themselves earnestly to the understanding and delineation of character rather than to the framing of elaborate plots. Montgomery Higginson's "The Word of a Friend" builds up with tolerable success the form of Bill the college waster, but fails dismally in the denounement which is designated to dispose of him; and Francis Fawsett's "Fisherman's Luck", in spite of occasional bright phrases, shows neither wit enough to redeem the broad burlesque in the lay figures of Waterly Meadows and Sir Tenterhook Weathervane nor invention...
Divorced. William S. ("Bill") Hart, 56, famed two-gun cinema hero; by Winifred Westover Hart, at Reno...