Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...east end of the hall are three abrupt steps up. Beside them, in the hall's southeastern corner, once sat "Bill" Price of the Washington Star, first of all Washington newsgatherers to make a serious enterprise, under McKinley, of "covering" the President. All newsmen have long since been banished from the inner White House. Until Roosevelt's time, the President's executive offices were up the three steps, filling all second-story space over the East Room. The East Room's extra height elevates the second floor here, thus lowering the sills of the upstairs windows...
...Passed a bill to extend administrative life of the Federal Radio Commission until March...
...Passed a bill to regulate the load line on vessels of 250 or more tons in U. S. ports...
...Bill hasn't been playing very much lately," was Van Ryn's explanation. But still the elders did not care. They decided that Van Ryn looked like a potential national champion as well as Davis Cup timber-and a modest champion, at that...
Another possible close-in airport is Governor's Island, the army post in New York Bay. Last week the Senate and House conferees on the War Department appropriation bill agreed to prevent construction of army barracks on a bare area of the island...