Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legislative Committee which rejected the petition to have the Legislature investigate the University I listened to the statements made by the petitioners at the hearing. I heard no statement that warranted the expression that a charge had been made against the University. The Committee speedily and unanimously rejected their bill. I believe that the Legislature will support the vote of the Committee and end the matter so far as the Legislature is concerned, and I hope that the CRIMSON will not dignify the petitioners statements by any request that based on them an inquiry by the Alumni should be instigated...
...Commissioner Hirshfield of New York some months ago would teach all subsequent fools to watch their steps when they seek to purify the wells of American history. Not so. The latest worker for the cause of 1776 percent Americanism is Representative O'Brien, of Dorchester, who has filed a bill in the House to prohibit the hellish poison of falsification from polluting the teaching of the history of the United States...
...veto upheld, so was the bill defeated. Although some politicians said otherwise, it was generally the opinion of observers that the defeat of this bill marks the end of postal pay legislation for this session of Congress...
...Boston Bar Association has introduced a bill in the Massachusetts State Legislature prohibiting trust companies from soliciting employment as executor, administrator or trustee by advertisement "or by such other means as would, if employed for a like purpose by a member of the Bar, be a violation of the standards of professional conduct recognized and enforced by the courts of this Commonwealth." The Massachusetts Law Quarterly states the view of the proponents of this measure approximately as follows...
...regards calories, the Bulletin was irate: "Regarding the system of estimating calories, Childs should offer an explanation, for the bill-of-fare says that bacon contains 300 calories, while bacon and eggs contain 380. That allows 80 calories for eggs. Fried ham alone contains 400 calories, but add eggs and you have only 390, so that eggs lose their calories when fried with ham but preserve them when fried with bacon. On the other hand, Childs tells you that fried eggs alone have 190 calories. Can you figure...