Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...music played from original manuscript on 16 Stradivari, Montagnana, Guadanini and Amati instruments from the Ronald Wanamaker collection, under the direction of Dr. Thaddeus Rich. When he heard that Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh was nearing Mexico City (see p. 28), President Coolidge took-pen-in-hand and signed an act of Congress conferring the Congressional Medal on Col. Lindbergh. A little while later, while the President was sitting to Mrs. Elizabeth Stevenson Wright of Cleveland for his portrait, the daughter of another President called at the White House-Miss Aleccia Elias Calles of Mexico City, with two friends.* Young Miss...
...Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved. And the administration tax program was being knocked out of joint by the House of Representatives (see THE CONGRESS). President Coolidge let the word go up Pennsylvania avenue that he was displeased and might veto the revenue act of 1928 if tax-cutting went too far. The Congress sent the President its $200,936,000 deficiency bill to sign- first major bill this session...
...Altered the Revenue Act of 1928; passed it 365 to 24; sent it to the Senate...
...Cutting. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon had said that the people's taxes could be cut only $225,000,000 with safety in the next two years. The Ways & Means Committee had raised this figure to $232,735,000 in a Revenue Act it reported last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 19). Last week, when they altered and passed the Revenue Act, the Representatives overrode the Ways & Means Committee at two points and voted to cut the people's taxes by $289,735,000. The first alteration, reducing tax revenues some 24 millions, aimed to benefit corporations with incomes...
...Work of this nature," he said, "is naturally difficult, and requires a lot of the students time, for he must rehearse as well as act." He may only have one or two lines in an entire performance, but while he is waiting for his cue, he will also be listening to the principals and observing how they act, and in this way will receive the best part of his training...