Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Lords recently behaved in a flippant manner heretofore unknown in that august body toward a bill to remove the responsibility of as man for his wife's actions. One "noble lord", says the news-dispatch, bewailed the fact that a husband could no longer indulge in "moderate correction" of his wife, which used to be perfectly legal when done with a stick no bigger than the thickness of his thumb. This gentle method of chastisement has now been taken away, perhaps because of too great disparity in width of thumbs, but the harassed husband is still liable...
...professional classes also against the Communists. " . . . I admit that Russia has evolved a magnificent propaganda machine and believe Russian propaganda will become more intense as the failure of Communism becomes more pronounced." ¶By a vote of 160 to 28 the Senate passed Premier Mussolini's Army Reform bill, under which the Chief of the Army General Staff is given power to decide national defence questions. Admiral Thaon di Revel, ex-Minister of Marine, argued that coordination and not subordination of the Navy was required in dealing with defence policies. ¶The Senate approved an appropriation...
...vote of 140 to 48, the naval estimates for the current year were adopted. The Chamber: ¶In the Chamber of Deputies, a unanimous vote of 304 approved Premier Mussolini's bill regulating secret societies. The bill provides that no Government employe may belong to any secret society or any society which compels its members to take an oath; and that all secret societies must supply the police, on request, with a full list of their members. The absence of oppositional votes was due to the absence of the Opposition...
Meantime, over in Macon County, a certain Farmer-Legislator, J. W. Butler, simple and unassuming, toiled in his fields with plow and harrow, not greatly concerned that the bill into which he had written the faith of his fathers had been seized upon as the classic foe of intellectual freedom...
...March, when Governor Peay signed the famous anti-evolution bill, he stated that "probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes it is going to be an active statute." In short, the Governor perched himself beautifully on the fence. The Fundamentalists were to have their law and their opponents were to have non-enforcement, and everybody was to be happy...