Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Humiliation Day-a day set aside for fiery speeches on Japan's resentment of the enactment of last year's U. S. Immigration Bill-proved a fiasco, because the Japanese did not feel half so humiliated as they had expected...
...President also signed a bill creating a Department of Communications, which henceforth is to be in charge of Cuban postal and telegraph services...
...Socialists put in a determined plea for the pet project of capital levy. After considerable discussion a Socialist amendment supporting the levy was defeated 340 to 210. A vote was then taken on M. Caillaux's bill as a whole and was passed 330 to 40 votes, the Socialists abstaining...
...afternoon of the same day the bill was presented to the Senate. First the bill had to be passed by the Senate's financial commission. M. Caillaux had a hard fight, but so convincing were his arguments and so imperative his manner that the commission passed the measure by 9 votes to 5, with no fewer than 11 abstentions...
After due reflection the Senate agreed, passed the bill by 273 to 11 with numerous abstentions. Next day, President Gaston Doumergue affixed his signature to the measure and it forthwith became the law of France...