Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provide a Panama-U.S. convention for the adjustment of claims by citizens of each country against the other. ¶ Passed a bill providing that a deported alien re-entering the U. S. thus commits a felony; sent it to the House...
...Less obvious, equally welcome, was the boost given to the proposed second interoceanic canal through Nicaragua by a sea-level route requiring few if any locks. As the war-game neared its final phase, New Jersey's Senator Edge went on the air to urge passage of his bill to appropriate $150,000 for a Nicaraguan survey. Said he: "In the event of war, two canals would be of inestimable value...
Propagandist Dittemore in 1919 quarreled with the trustees and other directors of the Boston Christian Science Church and was ousted. He went to London where he allied himself with Mrs. Annie C. Bill, self-styled "successor" to Mrs. Eddy and founder of a slightly insurgent Christian Science church known as the Parent Church. As everyone knows, the Boston church is always referred to as the Mother Church...
Edward Stephen Harkness, Manhattan financier, presented last week to the Library of Congress a large collection of 16th Century manuscripts concerning the conquest of Mexico and Peru by Cortez, Pizarro and their successors. The documents included a bill of sale of Alvarado's armada to Pizarro and Almagro for 100,000 gold pesos; also, the Cabildo book of the City of the Frontier of the Chachapoyas telling of the assassination of Pizarro by Almagro...
...Passed many a minor bill on the unanimous consent calendar...