Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the Purnell bill appropriating $10,000,000 to battle the corn borer, famed farmers' pest (TIME, Jan. 17); asked for an additional $10,000,000. On the same day he signed another bill excluding from the U. S. mails: revolvers, pistols and all weapons capable of being concealed on one's person...
...Senate- ¶ Passed, 47 to 39, the McNary-Haugen bill, creating a Federal Farm Board equipped with $250,000,000 to buy up surplus crops (TIME, Feb. 14). Only one New England Senator, Arthur R. Gould of Maine, voted for the bill. Hostile Senators vainly denounced the McNary-Haugen experiment as unconstitutional, price-fixing, bloc legislation. (Bill went to the House, where passage seemed certain...
...Debated White-Dill radio bill, refused twice to send it back to conference...
...clerk. "Think! A clerk," said M. Poinaré. "Remember that in his day Antoine Monis was among the great lawyers of France, that is to say of all the world. . . . "Messieurs. For the honor of France we must rescue Antoine Monis from destitution. The Government lays before you a bill to grant him an annual pension of 24,000 francs ($960) for the few years that he has yet to live. . . ." On such a bill the Chamber could vote only...
This they did to protest a bill now before Parliament which would grant to a British firm monopoly for 60 years of Athenian taxicab and bus business. Should the bill pass, nearly all the taxicabs and busses now running in Athens would have to be scrapped or shipped elsewhere, for 75% are of U. S. manufacture, with Italian and French makes next, and British firms scarcely represented...