Word: bills
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Agriculture Department Appropriation Bill...
...that it matters very much, but Secretary of War Hurley is not a Roman Catholic. If he were, what a blow to Col. Bill Donovan, Mr. Hoover's ex-friend, who had to be shelved because he confessed that faith. It may be that the Catholics claim Pat Hurley, but I know better. As I say, not that it matters except as such things are made to matter by the press, to which your magazine stands as a shining corrective...
...Passed a bill to give Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd the rank of a Rear Admiral, U. S. N., retired...
...Connie," insisted woebegone, calico-clad Tiller Ruminer, on whose testimony the four-Herman Greenway, Joe White, Hubert Hester, Bill Younger-were indicted. She repeated her lurid story of a night last March when, as she and Franklin set out to be married, they were attacked by the defendants. She testified: "Connie yelled out 'Till, Till, they're akillin' me!' Then Joe White slammed a big rock on his haid. I couldn't help him none because Greenway was adraggin' me into the bushes. Then Hester came and helped Greenway do what he was doin...
Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...