Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I agree with Newsstand-Buyer Pope (TIME, Jan. 3) as to only one of his "ten biggest" U. S. citizens - namely Chief Justice Taft. The other nine should be: "Big Bill" Edwards Irvin S. Cobb "Fatty"; Arbuckle Senator Heflin "Pudge" Heffelfinger-* "Phonzo the Fat Man" "Beppo the Big Boy" Elisabeth Marbury, The Doorman at Connie...
...President signed a bill providing for the enlargement of the Botanical Gardens in Washington...
...called for Mr. Gregg and said in effect: "Go, young man, to the Capitol and enlighten those grey-heads for me." After the committee hearings, Mr. Gregg sat beside and advised Senator Reed Smoot (himself ranked as the greatest financial authority in Con- gress) while the tax bill was being debated in the Senate. The Coolidge Administration is proud of the 1924 tax law-and so is Mr. Gregg, no doubt. In 1925 he was made Solicitor in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Now he is chief counsel for the Government in the Detroit suit, where Secretary Mellon and Senator...
...Passed appropriation bill of some $128,600,000 for the Department of Agriculture. (Bill went to conference...
...Passed appropriation bill of some $314,000,000 for the Navy Department, afterrejecting Representative Tilson's cruiser-building amendment (see p. 9). (Bill went to the Senate...