Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Received from the Naval Affairs Committee the Naval appropriation bill, to which had been added $1,200,000 to begin work on three cruisers;* began debate thereon...
...Passed the War Department appropriation bill of $357,000,000, providing for a standing army of 118,750 men, increasing the daily per capita food ration from 35c to 40c (TIME, Jan. 24), allowing $20,000,000 to continue the five-year program of the Air Corps. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Passed the Army housing bill, appropriating $5,080,000 for much needed new barracks. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Passed the McFadden national bank bill, after rejecting the Hull amendment, with the Senate's proviso permitting national bank branches in cities larger than...
Last week, Miss Gaston's major achievement began to be undone. The lower house of the Kansas legislature voted, 83 to 35, to repeal the anti-cigaret law. The State Senate is expected to follow suit; Governor Paulen say's he will sign the bill. Kansans had long been ashamed of this law. They could not enforce it; bootleggers simply sold cigarets for 25c instead of 15c; Missourians jested at their alleged smokeless neighbor, sent thousands of cigaret cartons across the border...