Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reloading the union truck, the properties were conveyed the remaining four feet to the stage door, and there deposited. This unusual circumstance found its conclusion in a bill for $110, subsequently presented to the Club...
...National League also has two new managers. At St. Louis, Bill McKechnie was deposed, despite the fact he won the league pennant last year, and replaced by Billy Southworth, who managed Rochester (International League) last year. In Boston President Emil Fuchs has announced that he will be manager in name and that the team's play will be directed by a board of three, the other members being Johnny Evers and Hank Gowdy, oldtime stars. This is a new departure, viewed with skepticism...
...President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill known officially as H. R. No. 632, known unofficially as the White Act. Of its many sections, the 17th was destined to cause the most trouble. For it provided that U. S. radio companies and U. S. cable (telegraph, telephone) companies should never unite, if their union might "substantially lessen competition ... or restrain commerce . . . or unlawfully create a monopoly...
...great gaunt figure of Cecil Rhodes was again evoked in the British Parliament last week when a committee of the House of Lords passed a bill affecting the selection of U. S. Rhodes scholars...
...bill provides for the division of the U. S. into eight districts of six states. From each district four Rhodes scholars will be chosen annually. Thus, as Cecil Rhodes desired, 96 U. S. students will receive scholarships every three years...