Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker pro tempore: "Is there objection to the present consideration of the bill...
...Last week, in two hours one afternoon and with comparatively little ado, the House of Representatives passed a bill that is the chief net outcome of the great excitement created last fall by Colonel William Mitchell's sensational attack on the Army Air Service (TIME, Sept...
...provisions of the bill are so framed that ultimately every man in the Air Service will be a flyer, that at least a fifth of the pilots shall be enlisted men, that there will be an equitable promotion list for air officers, that there will be some eight instead of three flying officers on the General Staff (composed of 93 officers), that the Chief of the Air Service must be an actual flying officer...
There was so little objection to the bill that the "ayes" and "noes" were not even taken...
...Reichstag definitely rejected last week by a vote of 242 to 236 a bill, sponsored by Socialists and Communists, which provided that property originally belonging to the former German nobility and seized from them by the Republic should be retained without compensation...