Word: joints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Naval appropriation bill carrying some $316,000,000, of which $26,000,000 is for aircraft and naval aviation. (Bill went to joint conference...
...Passed the first deficiency bill carrying $423,000,000 to make up deficiencies in Federal appropriations for the current year. (Bill went to joint conference...
...four days representatives of the House and of the Senate in joint conference struggled to reconcile the two tax reduction bills passed (TIME, Feb. 22) by their respective chambers. There was a divergence of some $125,000,000 between the two bills. So there was good ground for conference...
...greatest struggle was over estate taxes, which the House members were eager to retain and which the Senate wished to abolish. Finally a 20% maximum estate tax, with a personal exemption of $100,000, was agreed on. So the joint conference finally gave birth to the third tax reduction bill of the season?a compromise in which all shades of political affiliations were represented, but in which the tax views of the Administration appear uppermost...
...They also took the precaution to resolve that "all pronouncements of this joint conference shall have the unanimous approval of the constituent organizations as expressed through a majority vote of each delagation...