Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President signed the Tax Reduction Bill. (See TAXATION...
...President Coolidge declared that he thought the tax reduction of $387,000,000 carried in the bill was dangerously large, and Congress would have to be very economical in its appropriations in order to prevent a deficit...
...them is farm legislation. The difficulty is that it is not yet obvious just what sort of legislation the farmers want or will be satisfied with, although it is clear enough that the result they want is better crop prices. The other issue is an anti-lynching bill. If this bill comes up in the Senate, the Southerners will undertake a filibuster, an attempt may be made to supply cloture (limit the debate), and the irreconcilables may join the regular Republicans in the cloture move in order to get revenge on the Southerners who helped to impose cloture...
...civil liberty and free speech. In the recent strike of garment workers at Paterson, N. J., he attempted to hold a meeting in a half, oposed by the police, and them led the strikers to city ban where he spoke for free speech and read the New Jersey State Bill of Rights. The police charged the mob and Mr. Baldwin was later sentenced to jail. Mr. Baldwin's activities as a pacifist during the World War also attracted the attention of the nation...
...same bill is "Hogan's Alley", which takes another crack at Irish mickfighting in New York. When we were very small indeed, there was a little boy named Oscar who lived beside a vegetable garden. Every Fall when Jack Frost got in his dirty work on the vegetables, we got in ours on Oscar. Overripe tomatoes made such an excellent missive that Oscar's mother soon complained to the proper authorities, and the game was off. We spent the rest...