Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President chose to speak in a roundabout way to the Government of Mexico. Recently the Mexican Congress passed land laws which are believed to threaten American property rights in Mexico as guaranteed by existing treaties. President Calles however has not yet approved the bill. To correspondents assembled at the White House, President Coolidge intimated that of course the U. S. assumes that Mexico will live up to her treaties...
...denouement revealed, however, that these virtuous Senators, the militant interpreters of the Constitution, were not thinking about the Constitution at all. Some of them were thinking about the World Court, and some about the Republican administration and some about the new tax bill. Those who liked all these things, lost; and those who did not, won. The score was 41-39. Then the Senators put their well-worn, eighteenth-century, uniforms of strict constructionists and loose constructionists away, where they may be ready to hand for the next sham battle--Constitutionally speaking...
...loosely as price fixing (TIME, Jan. 4), holds that it will not benefit the farmers permanently, holds that somebody will have to stand a great financial loss?and does not want the Government to be the loser. Whether or not these measures would leave the Government to pay the bill depends on their details?not yet announced by Messrs. Capper and Dickinson. Whether the Administration would permit private organizations to take a risk which they regard as unsound for the Government to assume, is a matter of policy not announced by Messrs. Coolidge, Jardine and Hoover...
Unhappily the vast labyrinths of the English system of property tenure have served immemorially to make such suits unavoidable. For 30 years British jurists have been at work on a "simplification" of this system, which has grown into "a bill of 310 printed pages, to comprehend any one of which a layman would require a small law library...
...Lord High Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...