Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...test vote the Government was upheld by 320 to 209 votes. But the proceedings were not peaceful. The Communists, as lusty-voiced as ever, tried to delay debate until after the Senate had passed the Amnesty Bill (TIME, July 21). Deputy Andre Marty, the Black Sea Mutineer, called the Government: "Assassins, traitors, politicians without morals and without scruples." President of the Chamber, Paul Painlevé, had to suspend the session. Further disorders occurred after the Chamber had reassembled and closure was finally moved by 385 to 26 votes...
Premier Neergaard, presiding over a Cabinet Council, listened patiently to Minister of Defence Brorson, who was explaining a bill to abolish the Army and Navy and replace them by a general Police Force and a larger Air Force...
After some discussion, the Cabinet approved the draft of the bill, which is to be introduced in Parliament next Autumn...
Another muscle recipe employed by the Bull Man was clever, colossal, crooning Black Bill Tate, his sparring-partner-in-chief. Tate has been teaching his enormous pupil what clinches mean, how to follow a right with a left. Tate predicted that Wills, famed for infighting, would have to change his tactics against Firpo to avoid being knocked "very loose...
...Newport, a banished king put on something of his former splendor. This was "Little Bill" Johnston, holder of the national championship in 1915 and 1919. He deposed Harvey Snodgrass, 1923 winner of the Newport Casino invitation singles and, paired with C. J. ("Peck") Griffin (his former national doubles championship partner), seemed about to dismiss two other Californians, the omnipresent Kinsey brothers, from the doubles. That match had gone ding-dong for four sets and nine games when Robert Kinsey, on a stretching "get", was crippled with cramps, had to default...