Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lusty redskins of the Osage tribe came to the White House to present an eagle feather to their "Great White Father." ¶The President asked Congress to appropriate $1,063,000 for the construction of additional helium plants (see p. 10). ¶The President signed the appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. ¶The President nominated Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, onetime Democratic Congressman, for membership on the Tariff Commission to replace Henry H. Glassie, Maryland Democrat...
...Laughed and grew restless while Senator Bruce filibustered and blocked consideration of 92 bills, including a few of his own. Senator Bruce was trying to force action on his favorite bill to settle the more-than-a-century-old French spoliation claims...
Managing a movie theatre is undoubtedly a much harder job than it seems to the average patron who yawns and wishes he had gone in town instead; but it does seem probable that one good picture on each bill would draw a better crowd than two poor ones, eked out with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress...
Saturday in the date on which payment of the third term bill is due, it has been announced by the Bursar...
...that message President Coolidge, in accordance with his program of economy, declared himself an opponent of naval construction. Notwithstanding, a bill was passed in Congress for the construction of a giant dirigible, intended to replace the destroyed "Shenandoah", and for other naval appropriations...