Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mississippi's tributaries, which the Jones bill did not benefit, were bridling and bickering. To spur their debates to a modest conclusion, President Coolidge hinted that he might have the War Department proceed at once with anti-flood construction, using the authority of the Rivers & Harbors Act and money from the current Army appropriations...
...Dallas and Denver, which are Wet, he had cried out on "spies and snoopers." In Los Angeles, which is Dry, he explained that he, if President, would enforce the Volstead Act justly, faithfully and that Democrats had "bigger fish to fry than the red herring of Prohibition...
...smallest in the Senate. A proudly independent Virginian, he has commanded nationwide respect ever since the day in 1912 when, after 10 years in the House of Representatives, he unexpectedly became Chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. Financiers marked the way he shouldered the Federal Reserve Act through the House. Farmers learned that he knows their business, being himself engaged in it, and that though he talks little he talks their kind of language: homely, directly, and red-head-hot with expletives like "dadbumit!" He is Southern. He is Dry. He could mightily help Candidate Smith...
...theory of decentralization brings him into conflict with prohibition. Here his attitude differs sharply from the attitude expressed by Governor Smith in his last message to the State Legislature of New York. Smith argued that prohibition is a Federal matter; ergo, there is no reason for a State enforcement act. On the other hand, Ritchie argues--consistently with his theory of State rights--that prohibition is a matter with which the Federal Government has not legitimate concern under a truly Federal system, and that "the whole question should be turned back to the States as far as possible...
...Act III shifts the scene to business and here the rivalry promises even more violence. Mr. Fuller's "Ask the man who owns one" finds a challenge in Mr. Goodwin's "Ask no one; judge for yourself." But there Mr. Goodwin plays false to his former role. His banquet appearance contained not a little invective against wealthy automobile dealers; and now, another Luther raging against the nobles, he turns and joins the hated ranks. Mr. Goodwin as Registrar was forceful; as candidate for Governor he will again be able to furnish pyrotechnic displays. But he cannot be too careful...