Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would ask Politics to do for Labor this year. Time was no object at their sessions and during the week only one major demand was decided upon, that being a demand already outlined at the A. F. of L. Convention last autumn in Los Angeles, namely, for a Volstead Act amendment to permit 2.75% beer...
...enemies of good-will are on every hand. There are those who seek to find in every act a wrongful motive; who poison the air with suspicion; who will never be content...
Doubtless there stirred in the Fifth George an acute consciousness that he owes his throne to the fact that the First George was a sturdy Protestant. He, the Elector of Hanover, achieved his legal right of succession to the British Throne under the Act of Settlement (1701), in which the British Parliament had taken care to exclude all Roman Catholic claimants. To-day is barely two centuries later than that time-when a religious issue was paramount in settling the First George upon his throne (1714). Has England changed so greatly that the Fifth George can dare to remain aloof...
Bull. President Wallace Walter Atwood, of Clark University, appeared before his students to explain suspension of two editors and a contributor of the Clark College Monthly. The offense: publication of a one-act play, Bull Session. "O-scene," said President Atwood...
...Faggiano '29, president of the club, will act as chairman of the occasion, and the following men will serve as the welcoming committee: D. M. Beals '29, A. P. Caprio '29, J. W. Cox '28, James Rosevelt '30, and O. E. Vaccaro...