Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business"; 2) Prosperity and tax reductions; 3) The Kellogg Peace Treaty ;† 4) Improved Mexican relations; and a radio "goodbye to all of you . . . hope that you will...
Harvard will argue the affirmative and Boston College the negative of the question, which should be of especial interest in view of the bill recently introduced into the legislature, for the abolition of capital punishment...
...Debated hotly the $191,000,000 final deficiency appropriation bill carrying $75,000,000 tax refund item lost in deadlock on the first deficiency bill, also voted 230 to 125 against the appropriation of $24,000,000 for Prohibition enforcement; struck out provisions for two additional $10,000 secretaries to the President and for repair of Mount Weather, Va., as a Presidential retreat...
...founded another organ to fight propaganda with propaganda, Dry with Wet. Freedom is the new organ's name, a monthly published in Manhattan by the so-called National Committee for the Repeal of the 18th Amendment,* "for Constitutional Government, repeal of the prohibition laws and restoration of the Bill of Rights." Fifteen thousand copies of the first issue were printed and circulated last week. It was mostly free circulation, but subscriptions were solicited...
...dared Conservatives fail to fall in behind the Chancellor? The fact of their daring proved once more how muddlesome and namby-pamby is the leadership of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Last week the Party was definitely split and undetermined on the issue presented by Mr. Churchill's money bill: namely, should the Government pay in whole or in part the allowed claims of loyal Irish subjects of His Majesty who had suffered destruction of their property during the Sinn Fein insurrections (1916-20). Should a Loyalist whose mansion had been burned down by mobsmen get a whole new house...