Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of Commons to have no power to pass any act altering the Constitution or the powers of the House of Lords...
...making a speech in behalf of one John McHugh, I. W. W. member. At her trial, Miss Whitney admitted having joined the Communist party. True, she had never been accused of hurling bombs, preaching revolutions or even damaging machinery (sabotage), but California had, still has, a criminal syndicalism act by which membership alone in certain proscribed organizations is in itself considered worthy of a jail sentence...
After her conviction, Miss Whitney refused to petition for a pardon maintaining that such an act would be an admission of a guilt which she did not feel. Friends, however, carried her case to the U. S. Supreme Court which last May (TIME, May 23) upheld the constitutionality of the Syndicalism Act. Miss Whitney, now 60 years old, prepared to serve her sentence, said that in comparison with Sacco & Vanzetti, she had little cause for complaint...
Last week the news came out that Miss Ederle has profited only $20,000 since the day she staggered onto the beach at Kingsdown, England. Her vaudeville act started out to earn $6,000 a week, of which her share was approximately one-third. Her father and Lawyer Malone took one-third of the gross between them; the theatrical agent grabbed 10%, leaving Miss Ederle to pay the expense account of more than $1,000 weekly out of her own share. Recently, her act has fallen considerably below the $6,000 mark...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...