Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus far the Jitney Players have produced one-act plays only. Whether they will give longer productions has not been determined. But their success in short works has been unequivocal. A group of three plays generally makes a bill, with the play weightiest in dramatic content in the middle, and a comedy...
...Lords as a Conservative and just as much at his ease as he had been in the bosom of the Liberal Party. He became a stern enemy of Lloyd George's radical budgets and, in 1909, advised the House of Lords to reject the year's Finance Bill and "damn the consequences." The House did. Two ensuing general elections brought their lordships face to face with the problem of whether they should pass a bill to abolish their financial veto or should reject it and cause King George to create a batch of peers sufficient to carry...
...soul-stirring orations, he supported the Government's bill to give municipal votes to woman. The speech was the more remarkable because the Premier was bucking a majority of the Fascist Party. His speech was witty and to the point. More than once female giggles were heard from the gallery, but a certain frigidity was noticed in that region when he said...
Part of the bill, besides giving women a municipal vote, provides that women are equally obligated with men to serve the country during war, morally and materially, and will be subject to military discipline...
After the usual bout between Fascisti and Communists, the bill was passed...