Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White-Dill Bill, as agreed on in conference, provides essentially...
Authors of the bill are Senator Dill and Congressman White...
...radio regulation. Pending law, Herbert C. Hoover did what he could. The only issue was whether Mr. Hoover and his successors in the Department of Commerce should rule the air, or whether it should be ruled by a commission. The Administration favored Hoover & Successors. Congressman White wrote an appropriate bill and the House passed it. For the Senate, Mr. Dill wrote a bill about a commission, and the Senate passed that. Committees of the upper and lower houses met, worked long, late. That consummate politician, Senator Watson of Indiana, labored for harmony. Harmony came, but the Senator idea, slightly anti...
...bill refuses to grant anyone property-rights in the atmosphere. Licenses, renewable, run only for three to five years...
Glass v. Wheeler. The Senate was trying to set a date to vote on the McFadden branch banking bill. Senator Burton K. Wheeler demanded that he be allowed to speak for one hour in opposition to the bill, said that Senators Pepper and Glass had promised him the opportunity the night before. Senator Glass immediately denied any such promise. Vice President Dawes rapped his gavel, ruled the discussion out of order, proceeded with a roll call. In the rear of the Senate chamber Carter Glass, 69, thorough Virginia gentleman, ripe scholar, co-author of the Federal Reserve banking...