Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such that no less than 120 hopelessly conflicting amendments were offered and howled down by everyone not of the faction interested. At length M. Painlevé called for a tentative "vote of confidence" by offering a motion to close the general debate and begin debate upon the provisions of the bill in detail...
...continue, however. Before the Deputies had considered even half the bill in detail, it was obvious that an utter impasse had been reached. Despairing, M. Painlevé saw his measure go down by the slender margin of 275 to 278 when a vote was taken on the the much criticized Fifth Article, envisioning a virtual moratorium on the short-term Treasury bonds falling due next month (TIME...
During the week the Senators took notable action only once. This consisted in ratifying the bill aimed against secret societies, which was passed by La Camera at the last session (TIME, June 1). It was recalled that this bill, which now becomes a law, prohibits all persons in the employ of the State from belonging to any secret society or to any society which requires its members to take an oath...
Such yarnspinning was merely a luxury. The bill passed 208 to 6- would have passed in any case...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...