Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considered a Good Roads Bill to appropriate $575,000,000 for roads during each of the next two years. (Went to the President...
...Considered a bill for settling the so-called French spoliation claims amounting to $3,253,000. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Harlan Fiske Stone to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, after a long debate and two favorable reports by the Committee on Judiciary: vote of 71 to 6 (see Page 5). ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Wallace R. Farrington to succeed himself as Governor of Hawaii. ¶ Passed a bill to enlarge the powers of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in order to limit the cases which may be brought before the Supreme Court; vote...
...stand only for the teaching of plain Americanism," O'Brien said "This bill is anti nothing. The founders of the American Republic were great men, but I am not one of those who will not concede that they had their failings just as men of today...
...opposition to O'Brien's bill were a number of members of the Boston school committee. Superintendent Jeremiath E. Burke and Edward M. sullivan I 03 testified that text books for Boston schools are carefully selected and are free from prejudice...