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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Passed the Army housing bill, appropriating $5,080,000 for much needed new barracks. (Bill went to the Senate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Passed the McFadden national bank bill, after rejecting the Hull amendment, with the Senate's proviso permitting national bank branches in cities larger than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The Legislative Week Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Undoing Begun | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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