Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...bill now before Congress which really attains a point of legislative and economic excellence is the one which provides for an Inter-State Trade Commission, which is designed to help enforce the Sherman Act. The proposed commission would require annual reports from all corporations having capitals of $5,000,000 or more, and from any others which might be so directed. The commission would have no strong direct powers, but the suggestions made in its own annual report to Congress would doubtless have great weight, and would go far toward carrying out the letter...
...second report just made to the Chamber supports a bill to amend the charter of Boston. The committee recommends that the city elections take place between December 14 and 20, and that the number of signatures required for nominations for mayor be reduced from 5000 to 2000 for members of the City Council. The committee is at present considering a contract for lighting all the streets in Boston for a period of ten years...
...proposes the adoption of a system of taxation on personal property, whereby the tax could be levied uniformly and equally and the collection could be made more thorough and systematic. Professor Bullock was also a member of the Committee on the Taxation of Forest Lands which recently proposed a bill for state ownership of forests...
...Dramatic Club will round out the sixth year of its activity in what has become its customary fashion, with a bill of one-act plays. The three that it has chosen show a wide variety of interest and treatment, so that the spring performances should provide unusually good entertainment...
...Undergraduate Economics Society. Professor O. M. W. Sprague on "The New Currency Bill" in Emerson...