Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would scarcely ensure success to a loan for a country which is not recognized by the U. S., the Soviet carried out its transaction privately and directly with U. S. citizens, by mail. To assure U. S. buyers, however, it was necessary to get some U. S. banks to act as agents, to pay out dollars for interest and amortization. The Soviet engaged, among other banks, the Chase National Bank of New York, the Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, the Bank of Italy in San Francisco...
...business by requiring a unanimous vote of the U. S. Shipping Board to sell any government-owned ship; passed it, 53 to 31. Anticipating opposition from the House and a veto by the President, Senator Jones offered his measure as a "rider" to the already delayed and complicated Revenue Act of 1928, with which the Senate will not deal until next month...
...fallen House of Habsburg. No wonder then, that two years ago Pope Pius XI wrathfully recalled Papal Nuncio Mgr. Francesco Marmaggi from Prague, lest he be obliged to participate in honoring a dead man whose spirit lives as an active enemy of the Holy See. From that overt act of recall sprang the negotiations so happily concluded last week...
...Bethlen: "We turn to you in order to say a word for our personal friend and highly treasured colleague, Baron Havatny. We hope your wisdom will save a man such as Baron Havatny from being sentenced merely because, in other and more confused times than these, he thought and acted other than you think and act...
...department of Anthropology continued the discussion, although "without the inspiration of the Boy Scouts, rather, undergraduates." He pointed out the methods of identification in crime which belong essentially to the field of Anthropology. "Our, hope is that we may identify the criminal before, as well as after the act," he said, "so that we may recognize the presence of dementia praicox before and not after little Willie has put the baby in the oven." He mentioned the possibilities of the relation between race and crime citing statistics of the negro, and foreign races in the United States. Racial psychology, according...