Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and the 1920 Transportation (consolidation) Act...
With the Sinclair, Day and Burns sentences recorded, the Federal prosecution prepared to act against each & every one of the 14 Burns detectives employed in the jury-shadowing; prepared also for a retrial of the Fall-Sinclair criminal conspiracy case itself, to begin April...
...wrote and labored unceasingly, with the aid of Dr. Eduard Benes, now Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Of him Masaryk writes: "He had great initiative and was an untiring worker. . . . I naturally took the lead. . . . Politically and historically he was so well trained that . . . he was soon able to act for himself." (Thus even today President Masaryk faintly patronizes an assistant who is reckoned as the most able active diplomat in Europe and who was made chairman of an important international committee [See THE LEAGUE...
...looking for a fellow surnamed The Octopus who hangs humans by the feet when he hears the tick of a clock. They go down into the vault of the lighthouse where an octopus tickles Mr. Kelly between his shivering ribs while nobody is looking. Upstairs again for the third act, everybody confesses to be a detective. But one, The Octopus, is not; so he starts killing the others with mystic thunderbolts until an octopus gets him. A terrible noise, like a malignant god stripping his gears, ensues. The curtain goes down, and then up, showing Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly...
...announcement says that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, C. O. Whitney, R. L. Brooks, H. P. Davison, and Thomas Hitchcock Jr., will act as judges of the contest...