Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...section arriving two and a half hours ahead of time. In the dining car, the steward asked: "Is your coffee all right?" "Delicious," retorted Mrs. Coolidge. "What did you think was the matter with it?" demanded Mr. Coolidge-and another myth was started. ¶ The President signed a deficiency bill for $126,000,000 carrying funds for the soldier bonus...
...last nine months show French parents persisting in their now chronic refusal to maintain the race. This is a source of great worry to Gallic statesmen, but no such drastic measures have been proposed there as have recently appeared in Omaha. In the Nebraska capital city a bill is under discussion providing for the annulment of all marriages which have been deliberately unproductive after two years of opportunity. Report has it, however, that the threat to irresponsible but happy married life is not a serious one, for a storm of protest has risen to block the plan...
Accordingly the bill for elevating the guns on our six oldest ships will again* come before Congress and may theoretically be settled on the grounds of military and economic advisability. Mr. Wilbur's summary of the comparative ranges of the British and U. S. Navies is as follows...
...Chairman, petitioned Attorney General Stone to recommend, in his report to Congress, that the Prohibition Unit be transferred from the Bureau of Internal Revenue of the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice. The other, the Anti-Saloon League, urged the President to expedite the passage of the Cramton Bill, which would set up the Unit as an independent branch of the Treasury Department...
...Anti-Saloon League Proposal. The Executive Committee of the Anti-Saloon League, headed by Bishop Thomas Nicholson of Chicago and including Bishop James Cannon of Washington, D. C., and Wayne B. Wheeler, paid a business call on President Coolidge. They wanted the Cramton Bill made law. The Cramton Bill would set up the Prohibition Unit as a branch of the Treasury Department independent of the Bureau of Internal Revenue. This is in accordance with the announced belief of the League that Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair has hampered the work of Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Moreover, the bill would remove...