Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed 218 to 124 the White bill, a measure creating a commission "to further the public interest of radio amateurs." (Bill went to the Senate...
...items on which this charge is based are: that he voted with the Republicans for the World Court (he is rather excused for this, since Democrats consider that the Republicans came around to the Democratic view on the World Court); that he voted with the Republicans for the tax bill; and that he appealed for passage of the Muscle Shoals resolution on the ground that President Coolidge approved...
Last week "Lala" was greatly promoted, greatly rewarded. She succeeded Miss Clark as housekeeper of Buckingham Palace. Miss Clark was pensioned. "Lala" or Mrs. Bill, as she is more formally known, received the keys of the household majestically...
...LEAGUE) literally marked time early in the week until a Government should be formed in France to take the place of M. Briand's eighth Cabinet, which fell (TIME, March 15) when the Deputies voted down Finance Minister Doumer's "sales tax" clause in the long: disputed Finance Bill. (TIME, Jan. 4 et seq.) Under the circumstances, both President Doumergue and former Premier Herriot, leader of the potent Cartel des Gauches (coalition of Left Parties) decided that, in order to bolster up French prestige before the world, M. Briand must be instantly reinstalled as Premier and permitted to carry...
...industrialist whose failure was no less complete. Now appears M. Peret, a skilled lawyer and a veteran politician, but scarcely an expert of the first rank in state finance. He occupied himself with a modicum of quiet activity last week-sent to the Senate those clauses of the tax bill which the Chamber had voted before it upset the Cabinet. From these driblets of added taxation it is hoped to tide matters over for a few weeks more...