Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation, and authorizing the Department of Commerce to treat air navigation much as water navigation, i. e., license pilots, inspect airplanes, supply weather reports, erect beacons on air routes, etc. (Bill went to the House...
...Devoted most of its time to detailed consideration and emendation of the tax reduction bill, which it finally passed, 390 to 25. (Bill went to the Senate.) ([ Received the first regular appropriation bill of the year- for the Departments of the Treasury and the Post Office-carrying a total...
Representative Black of New York (Democrat) offered a bill excluding wearers of the D. S. O. and Congressional Medal of Honor from being tried by court martial. Representative LaGuardia of New York (Socialist, former Republican) introduced a bill limiting sentences upon such medal wearers to 30 days ?and made the measure retroactive so that Colonel Mitchell would be affected...
...first step taken was in the latter direction, when the Senate passed a bill creating an Assistant Secretary of Commerce in charge of commercial aviation (see LEGISLATIVE WEEK). But the debate had little to do with military naval aviation, and so the figure who will probably have most to do with determining the question did not ap- pear. He is the Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee. Amid all the hubbub he has remained silent, venturing no opinions, making no speeches. His only actions worth mentioning in Congress during the past three weeks, have been occasionally to assume...
...many others. I have come to the conclusion that either the traffic department is criminally negligent, or that the danger of this corner has been overlooked in the zeal of the force in playing little jokes on the student body in the way of an eight dollar towing bill for leaving a Ford or so harmlessly on the street at night...