Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rejected the Fess Bill for farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...
...Passed the Dill Radio Bill, putting control in hands of a commission of five, thereby relieving Secretary of Commerce Hoover of one of the many regulatory problems which have, since 1920, fallen his way. Radio commissioners' salary will be $10,000. The theory of the bill is expressed in the declaration that "Use, but not ownership of channels of radio transmission will be allowed under license for a limited period of years." (Bill went to the House which had already passed a one-man radio-control bill. Differences between Senate and House bills are to be settled in conference...
...Received Co-operative Marketing Bill from Senate and passed it without much ado. (Went to President who signed it with special pleasure...
...staff; that extra pay and insurance be granted those on flying duty; that the aviation reserve be strengthened. 3) That similar actions be taken in the Navy Department. Armed with this program, Congress set the ponderous wheels of lawmaking into motion, and during the session just closed passed three bills following, in the main, Mr. Morrow's recommendations. Last week the President signed the last of these bills-the formidable Army Air Bill authorizing an expenditure of $150,000,000 over a period of five years, at the end of which 2,200 first-class fighting planes...
...Conservatives. At last Mr. Macdonald suffered the ignominy of seeing his forces become so disorganized that many a hot-headed Laborite howled such unparliamentary epithets as "coward," "liar," "murderer." ( This unbridled rowdyism burst forth, of course, when the Government began to force through the Commons its long heralded bill to lengthen temporarily the working hours of British miners from seven to eight. As everyone knows, the strategy of this measure (TIME, June 28) is to lure the 1,000,000 striking British coal miners back to work by making it possible for the owners to offer the miners the wage...