Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Navy Department appropriation bill for 1926-27, and finally passed it with reduced appropriations for aircraft and personnel. (Bill went to the Senate...
...bill, which the country wants passed before March 15, had been completed by the Finance Committee but was withheld from the floor in the effort to get a decision on the World Court. The opposition continued to postpone the decision on the Court. They knew that if a vote were taken they would be beaten, but they also knew that many of the supporters of the Court were halfhearted, and they hoped if a vote could be postponed to force the half-hearted supporters to change sides. That was the situation...
Representative Butler, Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, has introduced a bill for building a new ship, bigger and better than the Shenandoah. Such a ship would cost upwards of $5,000,000. It would probably take four or five years to build. Secretary Wilbur and Admiral Jones are willing that such a ship should be built, provided the cost of building does not reduce the amount of money available for other naval purposes...
...Naval Supply Bill passed by the House last week provided for no new dirigible and proposed closing the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst...
...power to obstruct". It was the elderly but long-winded Senator Morgan of Alabama, Mr. Lowry tells, who, interrupted by the arrival of a courier from the President to the Senate, was at a loss to remember his subject. "Was I addressing myself o the Pure Food Bill or the Statehood Bill", he asked the presiding officer. "The Senator from Alabama was addressing himself to the Porto Rican Citizenship Bill," came the answer. Thereupon Mr. Morgan continued his speech on the topic of the Nicarauguan Canal...