Word: bill
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Scopes had continued, after the evolution bill became law, to use a text-book previously approved by state authorities...
...After signing the anti-evolution bill in March, said governor Austin Peay: "After a careful examination, I could find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools with which this bill will interfere the slightest manner...
...bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague...
...defeat of the bill means that no parliamentary action can be taken until autumn, owing to an intervening election ; but the Olympic Committee expressed confidence that it would be able, at the Olympic Congress at Prague, to be held May 25, to show guarantees of the Netherlands' ability to finance the Games...
...bill prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the schools was signed by the Governor of Tennessee and became a law less than two months ago. His Excellency, in defending his action, caustically declared at that time that nobody believed it was going to be an active statute. Governor Peay, however, had his tongue in his cheek all the while it now appears. Professor J. T. Scopes, a scientist, is one of the first to realize that the soft spoken Fundamentalists were not so playful as they pretended, for before he knew it he found himself arrested to face a charge...