Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Treasury and Post Office appropriations bill...
...printing bill of the American Federation of Labor will next month contain an item for 36,158 (more or less) copies of a letter by President William Green. For he addressed an epistle to 110 national and international unions, 1,000 city central labor bodies, 48 state federations of labor and 35,000 local unions. It bore the superscription...
...House, Prohibition came to the fore when the Treasury and Post Office Departments' appropriation bill was disbursed. Representative James A. Gallivan, of Massachusetts, Democrat, spoke to a packed house on a section in the Treasury appropriation providing $250,000 for the arrest of violators of the prohibition law. He described a banquet given by two prohibition agents (as described in an official report...
...know the difference between a stock and a bond because he had never possessed enough spare cash to purchase either. Of such stuff art popular heroes made. Last week Finance Minister Loucheur, known as "the richest man in France," save his drastic eight-billion-franc tax bill (TIME, Dec. 21) wrecked amid a storm of popular resentment Jean Frenchman made it exceedingly evident that he resented being told to pay crushing taxes by the millionaire-financier, M. Loucheur...
Twice the Finance Committee of the Chamber proclaimed by heavy adverse votes that the only clause of the Loucheur bill which would ever reach the Chamber was the relatively unimportant article proposing stern punishments for income tax dodgers. Thus rebuffed Loucheur kissed the rod to the extent of asking the Committee what sort of proposal it would endorse. The Committee haughtily took the almost unprecedented course of refusing to offer any suggestions whatever, and M. Loucheur was forced to resign as Finance Minister- admittedly a beaten...