Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing the Army to spend $150,000,000 over a period of five years to improve the air service. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Passed a bill establishing retired pay for Army and Navy nurses. (Bill went to the Senate...
...form, he makes a formidable opponent. That solid, dark little man is Robinson, nominal leader of the Democrats. He is a downright fellow. Of late a good deal of his time has been taken in putting through Administration measures-the World Court and the tax bill. There is Walsh; he is the Democrat's hanging prosecutor, only he hasn't found any Republican to gibbet for the public recently. That other man with the wavy, black hair is Pat Harrison, a first-rate denouncer. There was a time when Harrison poured Greek fire on the Republicans, and Walsh...
...Republican and comes from the silk stocking district of Manhattan, a Harvard man, with plenty of money, able, incisive, one of the best on the Ways and Means Committee. The man with the shock of white hair is Haugen, chairman of the Committee on Agriculture whose farm bill is raising such a rumpus. You see that smart young man who is going around and making so much of a party out of this? That is John Philip Hill of Maryland, who has appropriated to himself the leadership of the vociferous Wet bloc. There is Jack Garner, the Democratic Chief...
...spoke for a bill to extend hospital benefits to disabled World War veterans suffering from chronic diseases without positive proof that such diseases were acquired in the service. Her bill came up on the "consent calendar." (This calendar is composed of measures which it is thought may not arouse opposition. The bills are read by title by the Clerk. The Speaker asks whether there is objection to "present consideration." If there is one objection the bill goes over. If not, the bill is rattled off by one of the reading clerks and is passed without further...