Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bill was passed by 268 to 19 votes. The usual cheers were given for Premier Mussolini, after which the chamber was indefinitely adjourned...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
...many weeks negotiations have been in progress at Paris between the French and German Governments for a new commercial treaty. Since economic conditions in Germany are daily improving, thanks to the Experts' Plan, and since Germany must import and export if she is to pay the gigantic reparations bill, it would seem to follow that a mutually agreeable trade treaty would be made by the two countries...
Imagine a decent self-respecting publication which coined the bully-term "Gum-chewers' sheets" devoting a column to advertising the unspeakable Bill Hearst...
Admiral W. A. Moffett, Chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, fighting bitterly against a United Air Service, supremely confident of the Navy's ability and superiority to handle air matters on its own; breezy General "Bill" Mitchell, with his riding crop and spurs, a cavalry man who can fly, an Army man strongly advocating the service union which the Navy dreads; Godfrey Cabot, President of the National Aeronautic Association, a Bostonian of the great Cabot clan, so far interested in New York City as to advocate Governor's Island as a landing field...