Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Began consideration of the Gooding "long and short haul" bill, which would prevent railroads from cutting their transcontinental freight rates to compete with water-borne freight. ¶ Adopted a resolution for an investigation of the Tariff Commission by a special committee of five Senators (see below...
...Passed the War Department appropriation bill. (Bill went to joint conference...
...Debated the District of Columbia appropriation bill...
...least among criticisms of contemporary commercialism are protests against America's fiagrant and immoderate use of bill boards and posters. Despised by the aesthetic, condemned by the nature loving, frowned upon by the "better" minds of press and pulpit, they continue to defy anything and everything but the dust of their neighboring roads...
...defense is sound. Who, indeed, could suffer the meadows of Jersey from a Lehigh car window were it not for the rampant pianos and couchant spark plugs of commercialism which color the horizon? Life's sadder spots are indeed rouged to good purpose by the devices of bill posting...