Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, alert lawmakers, who keep little notebooks, began to list the questions which Congress ought to solve within the next year. A peek into such a notebook revealed the following entries: Prohibition enforcement legislation which General Lincoln C. Andrews is demanding, McFadden-Pepper Branch Banking bill, radio regulation bill, alien property settlement, Muscle Shoals leasing or sale, railroad consolidation, government shipping business, national waterways and the Great Lakes dispute (TIME, Nov. 22), action on Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report on the Philippines (see p. 8), Lausanne Treaty, ratification or rejection of the Berenger-Mellon French debt pact, farm...
...Dail: "We have to deal with an organized conspiracy to subvert the Government, but the force behind the raids and the genius directing them will not be able to make a sustained attack on liberty, order and peace in the Irish Free State." He then introduced the Public Safety Bill, supplementing the Treason Act and conferring emergency powers upon the Government. By employing all the persuasion at his command he was able to get the bill through the Dail last week...
During the intervals of debate on the Public Safety Bill, many a Deputy amused himself by flaying vociferously His Brittanic Majesty's Governor General of the Irish Free State, Timothy Michael Healy, jovial Anglo-Irish barrister, author of that illuminating volume Why Ireland is not Free. Indiscreet, the Governor General is reported to have recently declared: "The longer the Sinn Feiners boycott the Dail the better pleased I shall...
...Schund und Schmutz." Herr Doktor Wilhelm Kuelz, Minister of Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed...
...House of Peers. Added significance was given to the Albrechtist rumors last week when the Regent of Hungary, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, dissolved the Hungarian Parliament immediately after it had passed a bill recreating the Hungarian House of Peers. When the new House of Peers assembles, the four Archdukes, Friedrich, Albrecht (his son), Josef and Franz (his son) will find themselves at its head in semi-royal state. The Archdukes, as the ranking peers of Hungary, will head a House composed of nobles; of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish prelates; of high dignitaries of state and rich bourgeoisie...