Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...recent action of Congress in rejecting the State Department's bill providing for an increase in diplomatic salaries is one which most thoughtful citizens will deplore. Our present scale of salaries is woefully inadequate, the compensation in the higher grades averaging about one-third of that paid by other powers. Under such circumstances it is not strange that most persons find themselves unable to accept important positions; and partly as a result of this, no less than fifteen of our diplomatic posts are at present vacant, at a time when our interests urgently demand representatives of the highest order...
...post is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Shannon, who commanded the Harvard R. O. T. C. during the summer of 1917 and was later killed in action at Chatel-le-Chery. During his command here Colonel Shannon made himself greatly beloved by the students, and when he left for service overseas he carried the good wishes of the entire University with...
...political life. This group is not limited to the men in the universities; it reaches much farther and includes unfortunately the majority of the young men of the business and professional world. Leonard Wood believes in getting into the midst of things. He has always been a man of action. He has always believed in declaring his views openly. He works with the tools at hand; he does not say "I cannot do my work because I have not been given the proper tools." He believes in our system of Party Government, and, being a Republican, that...
...This action on the part of the Senior class has real and apparent merit. It will afford a means of keeping in touch with the members of one's class, with other graduates, and with the undergraduates. Interest in the life of the University will thus be sustained and a closer bond of union between all Harvard men will be encouragea...
...action by Great Britain today is misinterpreted by Hearst to suit his own ends. A dinner at which Viscount Grey and Herbert Hoover were alleged to have been present was pointed out as an example of the interference of England in American politics. The proposed auction of the interned German liners afforded a convenient pretext for illustrating how America was attempting to sacrifice her ships to swell the British naval reserve. Each of the situations alleged to exist have been shown to be entirely fictitious. On the ethical principle that an implied lie is no less a lie than...