Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United States Senate fights over the naval bill and the peace treaty; Boston fights over Sunday baseball; everybody fights over prohibition; but Michigan is confronted by a problem vastly more penetrating, and even more odorous than these. Michigan fights over skunks. Recently biologists and furriers convinced the state legislature that skunks are valuable integral parts of a community, and as such should expect the protection due to any and all of the state citizens. As a result, it is now against the law in Michigan to molest skunks, even in the way of self protection, during the months from February...
...looked as though a Fenn bill might actually be reported out of committee before the holidays. But last week a new obstacle was presented. Five members of the Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...
...maintained. Knowing that an oldtime war-dog's growling is often interpreted as senile jingoism, and to give his hardware-headed hearers an indisputably sound reason for wanting to see their country more heavily armed, Major-General Bullard also advanced the following argument for supporting the Cruiser Bill now pending in Congress...
...bill calls for 15 cruisers and an air-craft-carrier, to cost...
Therefore the Cruiser Bill is of vital economic importance to industry, especially to Hardware, Metals and Allied Trades...