Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President had declared for a "limited" tariff revision, Leader Watson declared for a "general" tariff revision and then, amid heckling, attempted to draw a fine distinction between "general"' revision and "unlimited revision" which he technically opposed. His argument: there would be 4,400 items in an "unlimited" tariff bill; the pending tariff bill contains only 3,000 items; ergo, it is a "general" bill...
Farm relief last week actually began its journey from the field of legislation to the husbandman's acres. The Congress, straining and wheezing, passed an administration bill, minus the export debenture plan and President Hoover, signing it with a smile and two pens, called it "The most important measure ever passed by congress in aid of a single industry." It was an end and a beginning...
Much legislative maneuvring was necessary to get the measure through to the White House. First the Senate, full of ill temper, refused by a vote of 46 to 43, to accept the conference report in which the export debenture plan was stricken from the bill. President Hoover was openly flouted by those who either honestly believed in this plan or felt that the House, heretofore gagged, should be given a chance to express itself. Speaker Longworth and other leaders had refused to give the House a vote on the debenture plan for two reasons: 1) it would force midwestern Congressmen...
...until President Hoover called House and Senate leaders into conference was the way cleared for the bill's enactment. Exerting himself as party chief, the President virtually ordered that the House vote on this question as the Senate's price of recession. So the House voted 250 to 113 against the debenture plan. The next clay, as gracefully as possible, the Senate acquiesced...
...obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...