Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate remained deaf to the President. Last week, finally, it passed (68 to 12) the cruiser-building bill with the three-year time-limit. The House shouted its approval. The bill went to the White House, whence it was brusquely despatched to the Navy Department to be thoroughly, but perfunctorily, combed for possible further objections...
...Pennsylvania who would veto a corporation stock tax; who raised $547,000 to elect Mr. Hoover in 1928. Mr. Grundy is a worsted maker of Bristol, Pa., and president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. Mr. Grundy is the man who has gone down to Washington about every tariff bill since the Dingley Bill of 1897. Who knows better than Mr. Grundy why the Pennsylvania delegation in the House caucused unanimously for a special session to deal with farm relief? and tariff...
Investigating he found that the prison's shoe bill was $55,000 a year, or $35 per man per annum. This seemed extravagant. Why should Louisiana pay its convicts $12 per pair for shoes worn out in penal servitude...
Governor Long discovered a shoemaker who would supply solid boots, good for six months of prison mileage, at $1.60 the pair. This figure made the shoe bill only $3.20 per convict per annum. Pleased with himself, Governor Long loudly called attention to a saving of $50,000 a year or $200,000 for a four-year term...
Having scattered these pearls of English vernacular before their Lordships, Baron Gorell announced that he is drafting a bill "to prohibit mock or bogus auctions" As an afterthought he added that "deuce phunt" means...