Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that 68th Congress have been forgotten? It fought three mighty fights. It passed a soldier bonus bill over Mr. Coolidge's veto. It passed the Mellon tax plan, much retailored to the Democratic figure. It stirred up the greatest hornet nest of a political generation, the Harding scandals -Oil, Veterans' Bureau, Department of Justice, Prohibition Enforcement-which, inch by inch, forced Denby, then Daugherty out of the Coolidge Cabinet...
...Black Hills. 1927 started off with President Coolidge's vehement veto and denunciation of the McNary-Haugen farm relief bill...
Vetoes. Already President Coolidge's occasional troubles with Congress are fast fading from the public memory. His vetoes were not many but they were notable. Most of them were vetoes of minor bills, for the sake of dear economy, and were not overridden. The soldier bonus bill of 1924 was passed over his veto. He twice appointed Charles Beecher Warner to be Attorney-General and the Senate twice rejected the appointment. But he twice vetoed farm relief bills which called for large governmental expenditures, and Congress did not override him. An increase of pay for postal employes he vetoed...
...verge of brightening over Boston, for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is to be relieved of its present position as the butt of literary circles throughout the world. The bill has been reported favorably to the State Legislature to amend the law relative to obscene literature, which, as it now stands, has been responsible for the banning of about fifty books in the past year. The new measure would entirely eliminate books from jurisdiction under this law, and a book would be judged by its context as a whole rather than by a single phrase or paragraph...
...elsewhere regarding the current unemployment, but to this day no one knows even approximately how much unemployment existed at that time. Hence Mr. Hoover wisely has stressed the importance of providing for the regular monthly compilation of records of unemployment, and here in Massachusetts Representative Shattuck has introduced a bill into the legislature to authorize the collection of such data in this state. When that bill has been enacted into law and when the other state legislatures have taken similar action, the first major step in Mr. Hoover's program will have been taken...