Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the annual supply bill for the "independent offices" of the Government, carrying $509,000,000. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Passed the Watson-Parker bill (TIME, Jan. 18) to abolish the Railroad Labor Board and set up in its place a series of arbitration devices to settle railway labor disputes, by vote of 381 to 13. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Debated the appropriation bill for the Departments of State, Labor, Commerce, and Justice...
...House Committee on the District of Columbia last week held hearings on the Lankford bill, which is proposed by the Lord's Day Alliance to make Washington the model city of the country. The bill would close all stores, theatres, cinemas and baseball parks on Sundays, preventing all work not absolutely necessary, and anyone who infringed its provisions would be subject to a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment...
...advocates of the bill were reported to have been shocked when they entered the committee room and found several Congressmen smoking. Rev. Charles Wood of Washington made a passionate appeal for the bill, and turning his back on the committee he made his peroration to his followers...