Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Tariff Bill, revising agricultural rates upward, wood rates downward...
Even Republican Generalissimo Smoot voted against adjournment. He cried: "My duty is to stand by the bill and if God gives me strength, that is what I'll do. If it kills me, all right. . . . If the Senate wants to adjourn I'd say THANK GOD but I will never ask for it myself...
...challenge, helped to vote three-hour sessions each night, making a ten-and-a-half hour fighting day for the Senate. Never did the tariff war go more briskly. The Young Turks, in the saddle, had a definite program: to keep the Senate in session; to pass the bill by Dec. 1; to keep industrial rates at their present levels. Old Guardsmen fairly panted as farm rates were pegged up so rapidly that even Senate clerks could hardly follow the procedure...
...Ministress of Labor Miss Margaret Bondfield introduced for first reading a bill which would increase by $62,500,000 the sums paid to unemployed males and females under the "dole." Increases are planned only in the lower age brackets...
...passed, the Bondfield Bill would mean doling out a total of $610,000,000 next year, equivalent to $13 for everyone in the British Isles...