Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quiet was the final stage of the Utah's homeward journey. Correspondents filed endless wirelesses, but no event of real importance disturbed the word-painted ship upon its word-painted ocean. Concerning Cabinet Farm Relief, Navy Bill, Kellogg Pact, Extra Session, the President-Elect maintained an unbroken silence...
...Garner demanded an investigation of tax refunds and credits, wished to find out why there are such large discrepancies between income taxes as first paid by large corporations and as finally paid after deduction of refunds and credits. His resolution will be voted on this week when the Deficiency Bill of which it is a part is passed upon. As the House will presumably divide along partisan lines, it is not likely that Mr. Mellon will find himself investigated...
Work Done. Reconvening from the Christmas holidays, the Senate last week: ¶Heard Senator Hale speak on the Cruiser Bill (see below). ¶Debated ratification of the Kellogg peace treaty...
...governments has dragged through courts and congresses and war. Recent years have seen the states quietly increasing their own jurisdiction, even as the federal administration has stepped, more or less successfully, into their affairs; the establishment of state police, the summoning of militia in last spring's strike, the bill pending now before the General Court limiting the small town's power of appointing local officials, are indications of this trend...
...France. Promptly M. Klotz sold this credit-bought goods for cash. They brought so little that ever since France has been repenting his bargain. Today one of the chief perplexities of Prime Minister Raymond Poincare is how he is ever going to pay the $400,000,000 bill signed for M. Klotz, which falls due in September, 1929. The only alternative to paying this huge sum in cash is for France to ratify the Mellon-Berenger debt funding agreement, in which all the debts of France to the U. S. are merged and spread over 62 years. Thus...