Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Took up consideration of the tax reduction bill...
...Passed the Administration's Co-operative Marketing Bill, providing for creating a division of co-operative marketing in the Department of Agriculture, to give aid and information to farmers' cooperatives. The bill carried $225,000 for carrying out the work. The vote was 357 to 3. (Bill went to the Senate...
...imagine a teapot small enough for this tempest. Mutual understanding seems to be circumscribed by a menu card. Be it admitted that great and holy causes are at stake on both sides and that "all is fair in love and war"; yet Mars would hardly stoop to wield a bill of fare...
...William Y. Elliott, lecturer on Government at Harvard, flayed Fascismo before the same gathering: "The liberty so zealously maintained by this Government in its Bill of Rights has been wiped out by Italy, and Fascism has spread over Europe as far as China...
...from the American Bar Association. The two lawyers are among the most noted of those who go frequently into court to look upon the faces of Federal judges, and both are onetime nominees for President - Charles E. Hughes and John W. Davis. They had come to argue for a bill increasing the salaries of Federal judges. Mr. Hughes snapped his fingers: "I don't care that for all your Fourth of July orations about love for America. The way to show that love is to pay a living wage to American judges." He pointed out that in Manhattan...