Word: billing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...public hearing on the bill now pending in the legislature concerning a $100 bonus for discharged Massachusetts soldiers will be held in the Senate Chamber at the State House at 11 o'clock this morning. The difficulty in question is the fact that men who served in the S. A. T. C. are not included in the bill in its present form. Undergraduates of the Undergraduates of the University or any others who were members of the S. A. T. C. will be given an opportunity to protest at this hearing. Opponents of the bill have asserted that it discriminates...
...Republican was inclined to deprecate the passage of this act in the first place on the ground that it was not what it pretended to be and that constitutional prohibition was due only a few months later. Yet, inasmuch as the bill was enacted, even after the signing of the armistice, the present situation is very different from the earlier...
...seems to me that of the first actions of the St. Louis convention are particularly significant. The delegates voted down the 'Grab Bill' to give every discharged soldier six months additional pay. This bill had been proposed in Congress as a political measure in order to win votes from the many discharged soldiers for its backers. It was entirely unnecessary, as the $60 bonus law gave all the aid that was needed to get a discharged soldier back on the job. By repudiating this bill, the Legion showed that it intended to keep to its newly adopted tenet of steering...
...bill for the biggest victory in the history of the world,--a victory cheap at the price. Harvard's record in this war has been a glorious one, and certainly Harvard is not going to fall down on the job. I have absolute trust in the people of New England to do their share to complete the war, to finish the job, to consummate the victory, and bring the boys home...
...students of the University who are interested in social service work are invited to attend. As usual, the dinner, which will cost one dollar, may be charged on the term bill...