Word: bill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Representative Garner: "There may be something in the rumor that the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, is going to resign, since the President approves the tax bill which differs in most respects from what was advocated by Mr. Mellon, and since we did not carry out Mr. Mellon's recommendations...
...House-Agreed by vote of 210 to 192 to alter the rules of procedure* so that a petition signed by a majority (218)) of the members of the House is required to withdraw a bill from committee and bring it to a vote instead of the 150 signatures that were necessary under the rules of the last Congress...
...them very seriously, I have come to the conclusion that either the Traffic Department is originally 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...
...Louisville (Ky.) Courier Journal: "The object of a sport should be to develop physically the greatest possible number of men. Certainly, the modern football game, with its specialization and segregation of the players, does not fill the bill...
ANDROCLES AND THE LION and THE MAN OF DESTINY-Another Shaw bill in which the first, the comedy of early Christian martyrs, is chiefly worthwhile...