Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what is now Corregidor. Today, El Fraile is but a stone turret for U. S. guns, is known as "the stationary battleship." But experts consider Corregidor to be as impregnable as Gallipoli or Gibraltar ; its heavy armaments have longer range than the guns of any existent warship. **The Bacon Bill provides for a separate government for the southern islands (where the Moros live) and strengthens the authority of the Governor General...
...treasury and the equilibrium of our finances. . . . "There may arise later questions on which the Cabinet may differ, but today they are entirely in accord on the necessity, on the urgency and on the means of financial salvation. "We will submit to you in a moment a bill intended to cover the present insufficiency of our resources as compared with our commitments. To avoid for all time new risks of inflation we ask you to vote indispensable increased taxation along with the principle of important economies." Continuing, M. Poincaré mentioned the debts of France...
...President arose later, breakfasted amply, telephoned to Loon Lake (30 miles from White Pine Camp), invited Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio to come over and spend the night. Senator Fess (whose farm relief bill was recently overwhelmingly defeated in Congress) predicted that Senator Willis, Republican Ohio Senatorial nominee, would defeat Atlee Pomerene, Democratic aspirant to the Senate. Next morning Mrs. Coolidge drove with Senator Fess back to Loon Lake...
While His Majesty thus decreed economy, the Senate assisted his ef- forts to save the Belgian franc by unanimously ratifying the bill turn- ing the state railways over to a National Railway Co. (TIME, July 26). The proceeds from the sale of this company's preferred stock will be used as the nucleus of a franc-saving fund...
...annual meeting of the American Bar Association. Mayor Dever of Chicago decried prohibition. Onetime Bar-President Chester I. Long decried present methods of judicial procedure. Oscar Hallam of St. Paul decried paroles. Expert witnesses, insanity defense, Senator Thomas J. Walsh (who is holding up in the Senate a bill for simplification of procedure)-all were decried seriatim; Finally, the Association elected former Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York president for the coming year, then adopted a resolution that "the American citizen of today is bartering his individual liberties and rights for Government bounties and bonuses...