Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...state legislature. One morning last week he walked into the executive offices of Governess "Ma" Ferguson in a businesslike manner. He had a right to walk in with self-confidence, for he was a leader of the friends of the Governess last spring in securing the passage of a bill which restored to her husband the civil rights which he lost when as Governor he was impeached and removed from office...
...annual, printing bill incurred by the League runs at about 200,000 Swiss francs...
Well might the deputies howl. The majority of them, however, as loyal Fascists, howled for the bill, not against it. Signor Luigi Federzoni, Minister of Internal Affairs, bellowed: "I exult in the bill as a death blow to the liberal democratic system of government!" Another prominent Fascist cried: "It transfers sovereignty from the People, a mere mass of ignorant beings, to the Nation, juridically organized in the State...
Since the Chamber as now constituted is almost entirely pro-Fascist, "the bill was adopted by almost unanimous vote...
...appears in a small town; cheats most of the good citizens out of their money; restores devotion to the hearts of parted lovers. The play is completely given over to him, much as Lightnin' was given over to Bill Jones. The plays are not dissimilar. The Deacon is probably not so important as its prototype, but a very fair echo no less. Young Blood. You would think, would you not? that plays about the younger generation were about over with. But they are not. Here are such a shrewd and forward-looking a dramatist as James Forbes and such...