Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge signed the billion-dollar Treasury-Post Office supply bill...
...President Coolidge took up a pen and wrote "Calvin." He took up another pen and wrote "Cool." With a third pen he wrote "idge" and as he dotted the "i" the Swing-Johnson bill, authorizing the Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram...
...Adopted the Senate's changes in the Boulder Dam bill. The bill went to the President...
...Passed a $143,000,000 supply bill for the Department of Agriculture; sent it to the Senate...
Having damned legislation in the Senate for two sessions past, the Swing-Johnson bill to build the world's hugest dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, was last week passed by the Senate, 64 to 11. Passed by the House last spring, the measure now went to conference to have House-Senate differences composed...