Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name Henry Ford has become synonymous with all that is desirable in an employer. How is it with the Communists of the community? Far otherwise. How they look upon Ford was made evident last week by The Daily Worker, Communist journal published in Chicago. It drew up a bill of grievances against Mr. Ford. Some of the items...
...House of Commons at Ottawa, Minister of the Interior Charles Stewart introduced a bill (subsequently passed) to require aliens entering the hinterland of Canada to take out Federal licenses. Explaining the measure, the Minister added...
...poor puffin! The poor gannet, poor razorbill, poor gull, guillemot, cor morant, tern and albatross! Ships that pass in the day or night vomit over the oceans the black waste of their oil-burning engines. Puffin, gannet, razor bill, gull, guillemot, cormorant, tern or albatross, dipping in their wake to gobble up some bilge morsel, floats flapping and crippled among the sliding sea hills, unable to rise for a cloying anointment that lays his feathers flat, seals his wings. He wearies, starves, sickens, dies, is flung ashore by the tides to testify in flyblown silence to the tyranny...
...Reichstag, by a small majority, approved a German-Spanish Treaty on the importation of wine. German winegrowers opposed the bill, almost wrecked the Cabinet. Finally, reason prevailed...
Amid uproarious scenes, a bill to provide Crown Prince Umberto with 2,000,000 lire a year ($80,000) was passed by a huge majority...