Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Muscle Shoals, and the House having scrapped in Committee all bills providing alternative treatment, President Coolidge let it be known that he was a bitter-end proponent of the plan to lease Muscle Shoals for operation by private interests. . . . More visibly due for a veto was any revenue act providing a tax cut greater than $225,000,000. A direct message from the President to Congress urged favorable action on Secretary MelIon's plan for helping Austria to raise a $100,000,000 rehabilitation loan by subordinating liens taken by the U. S. for prior Austrian loans. . . . The President...
...next engagement of the Walker act is on April 9, when Mayor Walker will, for some reason, be headman at the ceremonious unveiling of the Stone Mountain Memorial at Atlanta, Ga., to the armies of the Confederacy.-TIME, March...
Arthur Honegger in 1920 was not recognized as a master of contemporary music. In 1924, however, he was as claimed. Nevertheless, Honegger's return to public esteem was not an act of devotion or even premeditation, for his "King David" which brought him his fame was written to order...
...Willard 2L., treasurer of the Society, will act as toastmaster at the dinner, which will start at 7 o'clock. S. L. Rosenberry 3L., retiring president, and W. B. Carman 2L, president-elect, will speak. The following will be guests at the dinner: Professor Zechariah Chafee '13, Professor Felix Frankfurter '06, Professor J. A. McGuire, Professor Austin W. Scott '09, Brooks Potter '24, president of the Society last year, and Summer Babcock '24, vice-president last year...
...ROYAL FAMILY-How classy actors act when no one is supposed to be looking (TIME...