Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed with amendments a public buildings bill, providing $165,000,000 to be spent over seven years, $15,000,000 to complete buildings previously begun, $50,000,000 for buildings in Washington and $100,000,000 for buildings in the rest of the country. The selection of specific projects will be made by the Secretary of the Treasury with the approval of Congress. (Bill went to joint conference...
...Passed Senator James A. Reed's bill to increase the salaries of Federal judges* by vote of 66 to 8. (Bill went to the House...
...Debated the Watson-Parker bill to abolish the Railroad Labor board, to establish instead a series of arbitration boards for settling disputes...
These scar-decked swashbuckling heroes cursed because the Reichstag deputies had just signed a bill providing that German officers caught dueling in future, "except upon the most intolerable provocation," will be dishonorably discharged...
This three-quarter-of-a-billion road was forced into involuntary bankruptcy 14 months ago by creditors with a $125,000 coal bill, an incident sufficient to precipitate a receivership imposed by the Federal Court in Chicago, also investigation by the Interstate Commerce Commission...