Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ Amended and passed the House's $285,000,000 supply bill for the Department of the Interior. The measure went to conference.
¶ 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...
¶ Passed a $143,000,000 supply bill for the Department of Agriculture; sent it to the Senate.
¶ Debated and passed a $111,889,000 supply bill for the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, Labor. The total appropriation was some $100,000 over Budget Bureau recommendations. President-Elect Hoover's oldtime Department of Commerce benefited most. The measure went to the Senate.
¶ Rejected the Senate's amendments to the $285,000,000 Interior Department supply bill; sent the bill to House-Senate conference.