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Word: bill (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill authorizing $25,000 to be spent policing the Hoover inauguration. ¶Passed a bill authorizing additional appropriations for vocational education. ¶Passed a bill transferring certain Indian claims in Idaho, Kansas and Oregon to the U. S. Court of Claims for settlement. ¶Passed a bill covering settlement by Interior Department of damage claims from Federal irrigation works on Indian-owned land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Passed many a minor Indian Affairs bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Disagreed to the Senate amendments to the First Deficiency Appropriation bill and voted, 240 to 141, to send it to conference (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Received and debated a $352,000,000 appropriation bill for the Navy Department (see below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: The House Week Feb. 11, 1929 | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Navy and its needs commanded both decks of Congress last week. While the House was 'Considering the present requirements of the Navy Department in a $352,000,000 appropriation bill, the Senate wrestled with itself as to whether to give this branch of national defense 15 swift new cruisers and, if so, when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Old Ships and New | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

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