Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Interior Department Appropriation Bill carrying $234,000,000 for 1926-27. (Bill went to the Senate...
...Weeks was then asked about the Tax Bill now pending in Congress, about which he said, "the exact tax which should be imposed in all cases would not ordinarily be agreed to by any two men. It must, therefore, be treated as is most other legislations in Washington, from a compromise standpoint. The tax hill which has recently passed the House of Representatives, seems to me to be a relatively good one and should be passed in substantially that form. That does not mean that I am in favor of every item in it or that any other...
...days. The greater a man is, the sooner he may fall. And great men, especially in athletics are just curiosities. The public wants to see them once, and that's usually all. We may take grange's recent visit to Boston as a good example of that. Bill Tilden and Jack Dempsey had no success in the movies, and neither will Grange, unless he should prove to be an exceptionally good actor...
...London a cinema theatre manager received a note "with a bullet hole through it," reading: "If you put Kaiser Bill on your screen tonight I'll come and shoot him and the screen full of bird shot." Late despatches reported that the film had been withdrawn by the leasing company...
...that the Republican members of the Senatorial finance committee have graciously allowed their Democratic colleagues to amend the original measure, the tax-reduction bill seems destined for smooth sailing in the upper chamber. For, despite the fact that the new tax schedule embodies all the essentials of the unsuccessful Mellon plan of last session, there is no organized opposition to its passage...