Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate? ¶ Debated the Italian debt settlement (see below). ¶ Debated farm relief measures. ¶ Passed two bills for the beautification of the Capital. One, carrying $1,900,000, was for a connecting link between Rock Creek and Potomac parks. The other extended the powers of the Park Commission. (Bills went to the House for perfunctory agreement to a few amendments.) ¶ Debated, in connection with appointment of Thomas F. Woodlock to Interstate Commerce Commission (TIME, April 5), the question of absolute secrecy at executive sessions of the Senate. Republican Leader Curtis promised prompt committee consideration of a proposal...
When Premier Briand dared last week to make a question of confidence out of the hated "sales tax" measure which the Deputies have rejected time and again, the bill passed, thereby increasing the expected tax yield for next year by 12 hundred million francs ($42,000,000). Thereafter 225 million francs ($7,875,000) of added taxes on alcohol were passed, together with a poll tax expected to bring in 570 million francs ($19,950,000). Other miscellaneous taxes passed in quick succession. The whole, together with the taxes passed before the last Briand Cabinet fell (TIME, March 15), totaled...
...Depu- ties are not sincerely behind it. Two. These "benevalent absten- tions" were due only in part to the fear which the Deputies felt for the franc. The Radicals, especially the Socialists, who abstained did so at a price: the reluctant inclusion by the Government in the budget bill as finally passed of clauses providing "in principle" for the creation of a government monopoly of petroleum and sugar?two products now very largely distributed in France by foreign-owned corporations...
...Night Session. Right honorable members of the House of Commons indulged in antics last week which seriously weakened the popular myth that Britons are a stolid and decorous race. The Government had announced its intention of jamming through a bill empowering it to cut down disbursements to the health insurance fund; and a certain arrogance manifested by Mr. Neville Chamberlain,* the Minister of Health, roused the Opposition leaders to obstructionist tactics which rapidly degenerated into low comedy...
...Professor Football League, of which Mr. Bill Edwards, a college graduate, is president, has a rule which forbids any professional league club from signing college students prior to their graduation. Mr. Edwards has realized that the colleges are competition for their athletes during the latters' undergraduate days and has seen fit to make a very, sane and worthy rule forbidding the professional clubs from interfering...