Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once upon a time Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts vetoed a cinema censorship bill on technical grounds...
...regular conference with reporters the President made it known that he did not favor Federal censorship of motion pictures* but thought that the states should do whatever is necessary of that kind. He indicated that he favors the Mills bill, which would provide returning German property in the hands of the Alien Property Custodian to its owners and paying American claims against Germany out of the proceeds of a U. S. bond issue, which would be retired out of the U. S. receipts under the Dawes Plan from Germany...
...Approved the Italian War Debt Settlement by vote of 54 to 33, later defeating a motion to reconsider its action. (Bill went to the President...
These defects and others-defects that on the one hand make the U.S. appear uncivilized, and on the other deny to U.S. artists legislative benefits of a kind long enjoyed by manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
...golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...