Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made a brilliant success. Transportation, schools, justice, government, and above all yellow fever had to be dealt with in a manner demanding of the governor the highest qualities of judgment character and action. The foresight and courage with which he supported the experiments of the medical men for the extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred on him at 38 the degree of LL.D...
...chosen this year to represent American universities, as holders of the Rhodes scholarships should take to Oxford with them qualities which few have possessed in the past. Cecil Rhodes was a man of action and of vision and the spirit which led him to the Dark Continent and which enabled him to create the British Empire in Africa is the spirit which he would have liked to see embodied in those who should hold his scholarships at Oxford...
...politicians thought that universal training was shelved by the evasive action of the House of Representatives on February 25, they now find that they will have to reckon with the American Legion. That organization, which has a membership of considerably more than a million veterans of the war, and is growing in strength every day, has decided to make an intensive campaign for universal training in every Congressional district. The resolution was made the day after the House of Representatives tried to bury the issue out of sight by reference of it to a "friendly" committee, not named, which...
...purpose of this club is to interest members of the University in General Wood's presidential candidacy and to further that candidacy in whatsoever way it can. No extensive program of action will be adopted, however, until the aim of the organizers, of building up a considerable membership of men friendly to the General, has been accomplished...
...recent interview for the CRIMSON, the Honorable William S. Kenyon, United States Senator from Iowa, warns against the probable action of the Republican party to nominate a presidential candidate at the convention in Chicago, Senator Kenyon is Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Education, and is one of the ablest Republicans in Congress...