Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herbert Hoover has caused to be publicly made known that he is vexed when people write to him and give the letter to the press before he replies (TIME, Aug. 26), it almost seemed last week that L'Americain had deliberately set out to double-vex the President. His action was applauded by the French Chamber of Deputies. Soon afterward the Chamber appropriated $50,000,000 to build seven submarines, six destroyers, one battle cruiser, four auxiliary ships and to buy a goodly supply of torpedoes and shells...
...Abraham Lincoln-A Cartoon History by Albert Shaw-Review of Reviews (2 vol. $8). *Dr. Shaw opines that smooth-shaven men of words tended to grow beards when they felt action (the Civil War) approaching...
...action of the Colombian legislature in increasing the tax on petroleum production was interpreted (by Wall St.) as the result of British maneuvering in the world-wide competition for petroleum properties. Specifically, the Gulf departure from the Colombian field was considered a development favorable to Sir Henri Wilhelm August Deterding and his Royal Dutch-Shell group...
...sports writer who sees perhaps at the most a dozen Eastern football games picking a fair and representative Al-American eleven. Even though a staff of 500 critics may assist him it is hard to argue relative merits on paper. One has to see the men in action. At any rate it is certain that most of the experts took one on the chin as a result of the finale of the 1929 season...
...played this season. The graduation of these men to the University team is due to the abscise of the regulars. Captain E. T. Gerry '31 has not yet recovered from his illness, but he is expected to be with the team next week. Any others who might have seen action in this game are either ineligible because of scholastic difficulties or have not yet returned from the vacation. On this account, it is expected that Luton, Kimball, and Nicholas will play the entire game...