Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor General Wood made his feelings known some time ago when a similar bill was proposed...
...House Committee in the District of Columbia was holding hearings on a bill to abolish capital punishment in that little rectangle of land set apart for the business of governing the nation. A witness appeared to be questioned. He wore baggy clothes, was weary looking. A cigaret drooped from his mouth. But his eyes focused with keeness and understanding on the members of the committee...
...Manila, a bill was proposed in the territorial legislature forbidding sending through the mails: "Photographs, engravings, lithographs, books or any kind of printed matter depicting any inhabitant of the Philippine Islands belonging to the so-called non-Christian tribes and to the tribes inhabiting the provinces of northern Luzon...
...Director of Posts recommended the bill as follows...
There is no law requiring it, but it has become customary for Congress to pass a law granting a pension of $5,000 a year to the widow of a President. Last week a Congressman from Rhode Island, Richard S. Aldrich, introduced a bill for a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, saying it was about time that a similar provision was made for widows of Vice Presidents...