Word: congress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Railroads. Let Congress legalize more mergers. They are needed to lower freight rates...
...reading of the Deficiency Bill. Later he was unabashed by a report from Charge d'Affaires Whitehouse in Paris, denying the alleged spying on Mayor Walker of New York City, whom Mr. Gallivan, a cunning clown, denied having named by name. The outburst served merely to notify the 70th Congress that jocose Mr. Gallivan, who little resembles most Harvard men of the '80's, was again on hand with his alliterative eloquence, his unquenchable Americanism...
...million dollars or so asked for the State Department were voted among the Deficiency Bill's other items, totaling some $198,916,264.91 for which the last Congress failed to provide funds...
Bills, Bills, Bills. The numbers on the bills filed in the House passed well beyond 6,700 before the first week of the 70th Congress was out. "Congressional Record" was flooded with entries like the following...
...Schafer: A bill (H. R. 6,098) to disclose interest of and to regulate lobbyists who attempt to procure the passage or defeat of any measure before the Congress of the United States; to the Committee on the Judiciary...