Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the sandbagging, prolonged and vigorous: "On March 4, 1921, Warren G. Harding was inaugurated. ... On that day corrupt and sinister financial conspiracies . . . took possession of the Government . . . bribes . . . scaly hands . . . conspirators. . . . "The first act of Coolidge was to approve the policies of the Harding Administration. . . . Coolidge continued at the head of the Department of Justice, Harry M. Daugherty, as vile an insect as ever crawled across the page of time. He consorted with criminals and took as his bedfellow a grafter and bribetaker [Jesse Smith], who afterwards suicided. . . . Coolidge never lifted a hand. He remained as mum and inactive...
...District Court an injunction for the union men's eviction, on the ground that they were hampering the company's business, part of which is the interstate shipment of coal. To hamper interstate trade, said the company, is to violate the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Judge Schoonmaker agreed and wrote into the injunction a number of other prohibitions wanted by the company, against the unionists throwing rocks at company officials or dynamiting company land, against trespassing, loitering or even parading near company property. By any such acts, implied Judge Schoonmaker, the United Mine Workers might "hamper interstate trade...
...most astounding development in the situation was a statement from President Calles to the effect that he knew all about the plans for the revolt months ahead of time. According to Senor Calles, he forbore to act in the hope that the plotters would renounce their treasonable intentions. He admits that he could have prevented the rising, but did not act out of a desire "not to cast doubt on the members of the army whose decorum I was eager to save...
...Herman will be assisted by the librarian. Mr. Carl R. Roden, who will act as a sort of gun-bearer. Mr. Roden was appointed after the previous librarian had been discharged through the efforts of Judge Frederick Bausman. Judge Bausman recently contributed an anti-British article to the American Mercury, which is edited by Mr. Henry L. Mencken. Every loyal supporter of Mayor Thompson wishes that these gentlemen will have a happy and successful lion hunt. It would be poor sportsmanship to wish anything else, or to point out that not only the Revolutionary War, but all succeeding ones...
Scarcely loss hard-fought than the game itself on Saturday was the struggle staged between the Harvard and Holy Cross bands. Harvard certainly had the numerical advantage, boasted, besides a brass baton of considerable proportions, was supplied with artillery, and certainly inherited a act of marching songs of rhythm and tradition...