Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pensions are customarily granted widows of U. S. Presidents and Vice Presidents by special act of Congress. Mrs. Roosevelt receives a $5,000 pension. The $5,000 pension bill for Mrs. Marshall, passed by the Senate, is now pending in the louse. No pension has been voted Mrs. Wilson, who, wealthy, has asked that none )e given...
...Passed the cruiser-construction bill (see below...
Bargain. In the secret conferences, trading possibilities were offered by other Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill. The Senate called for publicity on all tax refunds of $10,000 or more; it supplied the next President with $250,000 to make a law enforcement survey. In the basement bargaining to follow, the House conferees might possibly accept these amendments provided the Senate backed down on its $24,000,000 dry fund. In the event of a deadlock, in conference, with neither branch of Congress receding, the entire $84,000,000 Deficiency bill would fail of passage...
Incredulous folk found more interesting than these holy doings the hard fact that in New Delhi, India, last week, the Indian Legislative Assembly rejected (53 to 24) a bill which would have made illegal the notorious Indian practice of "Child Marriage." Cried several members, "Shame! Shame!" As everyone knows, there are numerous recorded instances, claimed by Hindus to be exceptional, wherein mature and even senile Indian males have taken unto themselves wives under eight years old. The bill rejected last week would have set the ages of consent at 18 and 14 for youths and maids respectively...
...cigarets in 1928. It was the first time U. S. cigaret sales reached the 100-billion mark-a per capita consumption of approximately 1,000 cigarets a year. About 8,700,000,000 more cigarets were smoked in 1928 than in 1927. U. S. smokers had a 1928 cigaret bill of almost exactly two billion dollars...