Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Final Scenes. The last few days of the strike were encumbered with a number of misleading signs. The Senate, after twice refusing to interrupt its work on the tax bill, considered this resolution...
...House meanwhile was getting more and more worked up. The Democrats pressed for action and the Republicans began to cast about for something that they could do. Representative Boylan exclaimed: "Although 27 days have elapsed since I introduced my bill for Government intervention, and the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee has had requests for action on it, nothing has been done. How much longer must we wait before we, or the Administration, will...
...Senate Finance Committee there suddenly appears a Simmons amendment to the tax bill, one making low inheritance tax rates retroactive. That being conceded by the Republicans, all the obstacles to co-operation between the two major parties in the Senate on tax legislation disappear...
...House Committee on Coinage, Weights and Measures last week had its day on the legislative calendar and presented one bill, a bill to continue the life of the National Screw Thread Commission. But it did not report the Britten metric standards bill, although hearings on the bill were begun Feb. 1. Congressman Fred Albert Britten is from Chicago. He is prominent in the House on naval affairs and it was he who was given credit for bringing the next Army-Navy foot ball game to his city. Incidentally his business is building construction, and that accounts for his introducing...
...World-Quart" bill is a metric system bill. It proposes to make standard throughout the U. S. the metre (world yard), the litre (world quart) and the one-half kilo gram (world pound). The world yard and world pound are about 10% greater than our present measures, and the world quart about 5% greater than our present quart. The use of these measures would be made obligatory in merchandising (not in manufacturing...