Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act. The House repassed it the same day, the Senate the next...
...Amended and passed the Revenue Act of 1928 (tax reduction); sent it to conference; adopted the conference report. The bill went to the President...
...Symphony in E-flat major Mozart 1. Adagio; Allegro 2. Andante 3. Menuetto; Trio 4. Finale; Allegro Concerto in D minor Bach 1. Vivace 2. Largo 3. Finale "Tannhauser," Bacchanale Wagner "Lohengrin," Prelude to Act III Wagner "Tristan and Isolde," Prelude to Love-Death Wagner "The Valkyrie," Ride of the Valkyries Wagner "The Valkyrie," Magic Fire Music Wagner
...criminal." In his newly published "The Delinquent Boy: A Socio-Psychological Study" Doctor John Slawson says that the first necessity of the juvenile court is "to treat the offender by the scientific investigation of the mental, environmental and physical antecedents which might have led up to the anti-social act." Judge Ben Lindsey, and less interviewed magistrates, have proved such procedure practicable. And there is in the adult criminal enough mutability to make the use of human and scientific understanding in the handling of him no longer a something not to be postponed...
...moment, however, the reduction of prices, or rather, the act making it possible, is salient in the public mind. A treasury which is able to slice two hundred million dollars from federal taxes hardly needs how the income derived from the automobile war tax which belongs anyway to that strange series growths orginating in the feverish days of 1917 along with wheatless days, government ownership, and Thritt Stamps Too small to be of genuine importance in the Treasury, yet large enough to be an annoyance to purchasers of everything massed in the category of luxuries by the wartime administrators...