Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...butterfly grows into a larva, and the larva converts itself into a pupa all bound up in its chrysalis, and finally the bright winged imago emerges. But the egg is separated from the imago by no wider span or stranger transmutations than there are between a tax bill in its first hearings before the Ways and Means Committee and a tax law duly enacted by Congress and signed by the President...
...Process. Last week the Ways and Means Committee set to work in earnest upon the tax reduction law of 1926. From the conflicting opinions now being heard by the Committee, in all probability two bills will be drawn up. Then the Republican and the Democratic caucuses after some internal bickering will agree to them. The Ways and Means Committee will at last make two reports to the House, a majority (Republican) and a minority (Democratic) report. Then for several days the House will argue, and finally some sort of bill, probably with a number of compromises, will be agreed...
...Bill in "The Better 'Ole", Ko-Ko in the "Mikado", and his present role as Lutz in the "Student Prince", Mr. Hopper declared were probably the most interesting characters of the many that he has portrayed...
Harvard came off with a better score in the matter of sobriety, however. Although the Copley Plaza official would not give the Crimson a clean bill in this respect, he admitted that the Harvard men seemed less in need of stimulates than the Hanoverians. Who indulged the most, I can't say, but I know that the Harvard men carried themselves with more dignity than our visitors...
...Mussolini Cabinet approved a bill providing that henceforth the Mayor of Rome and the mayors of all Italian municipalities of less than 5,000 inhabitants will be superseded by officers appointed by the Central Government. Thus the electorates of the towns affected will have practically no voice in the administration of their local affairs...