Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difference. Every month after the pay checks are sent out, he returns a check for $208.33. It is a point of honor with him. His father, John Randolph Tucker, onetime Representative, once refused a similar salary increase and had himself especially exempted from taking it in the appropriation bill. So Representative Henry...
House of Lords: ¶The Performing Animals Bill (a bill to prevent cruel abuses in the training of animals) passed the committee stage. Debate constructed from the official report of the committee proceedings...
LORD DESBOROUGH, replying for the Home Secretary: "The bill clearly defined the word "animal' as including birds, reptiles and fish. I regret that fleas do not come within the scope of the bill...
LORD ULLSWATER: "It is quite clear that an insect is not a bird, nor a reptile, nor a fish; but I hope the noble lord [Lord Danesfort] in charge of the bill will consider whether insects should receive that protection which their lordships contemplate giving to the 'animals.'" (Chuckles...
...Lord Birkenhead do it?" In an article entitled "Murder," the noble lord expressed much philosophical sympathy with a man who kills a blackmailer to save himself and his family. In the Commons, the Premier was asked: ''Have you read the article?" and: "Considering that there is a bill before the House to abolish capital punishment, is not the article a matter of public policy?" The Premier laconically replied : "I very seldom read the afternoon papers," sat down...