Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Crumpacker, Oregon Congressman, called at the White House to protest to the President against the sale of the Admiral Line by the Shipping Board to the Dollar shipping interests. Senator Copeland, New York's Democratic Senator, called on the President to explain his bill for preventing strikes in the anthracite industry. A committee of the National Training Camps Association called to discuss the costs of summer military training. Speaker Longworth called to tell the President that he hoped Congress could adjourn by the middle of June...
...Passed a Civil Service retirement bill providing for maximum annuities of $1,200 a year. (Bill went to joint conference...
...Passed a bill providing $30,000,000 to be spent during three years in aid of 27,000 disabled War veterans. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Defeated after an acrimonious debate the Haugen farm relief bill, by vote...
...tomb-and never more were heard of in this life. Others say that fabulous treasures and curiosities are stored within the various cryptic walls, brought there by brethren from high office* or daring adventures- the original Declaration of Independence, the very skull of Napoleon, a wolf shot by Buffalo Bill, a key to the main gate of the Vatican. Wildest of all are the rumors about what is done at the societies' meetings, for these begin twice weekly at seven and often last until four or five in the morning. Some say that naked male Negroes figure...