Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passed without discussion or a record vote a bill to prohibit any extraordinary appeals in the trials of Albert B. Fall, Harry Sinclair, E. L. Doheny for conspiracy to defraud the Government. (Bill went to the House...
Debated a bill to provide refuges for migratory birds for so long a time that some Senators declared a filibuster (of unkown purpose) was in progress and signed a petition to apply cloture...
Members of the farm bloc, incensed by the defeat of the Haugen farm relief bill last week, blocked the effective working of the House, and action on a rivers and harbors bill and on a bill to raise the salaries of Federal judges was delayed...
...Will Hays, his chief, retired in 1922 to the quiet cloisters of the movie industry, Dr. Work stepped into the vacant Cabinet post, and a year later when Albert Bacon Fall left the shelter of the Cabinet, Dr. Work was made Secretary of the Interior. Recently Congress passed a bill lowering water charges on reclamation projects. The farmers of Scotts Bluff declare that Dr. Work as Secretary of the Interior agreed to let the collection of back charges wait until the reduced scale had been put into effect, then changed his mind...
...Brookhart has been stumping Iowa telling it just that, saying that Wall Street put him out of his seat, saying that Wall Street defeated the Haugen farm relief bill, saying that Wall Street put over the Esch-Cummins railway bill and the farmers are paying (through freight rates) the dividends on watered stock, saying that the farmers are enriching Wall Street because they have to buy under the protective tariff, saying Wall Street and the Administration are hand in glove, and mentioning incidentally that he voted against World Court adherence...