Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staff of Federal doctors to soothe such maladies. Senator Reed would have better execution of the existing constitutional law and less reform, fewer "hordes of officials and snoopers who swarm over the land like the lice of Egypt." For the same reason that he fought the Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act, he opposed the McNarv-Haugen farm relief bill. Senator Reed's other Jeffersonian axiom is that the U. S. should not meddle in the affairs of Europe...
...iron and iron kentledge, the President raised the tariff from 75c to $1.12½ a ton; on gold leaf, from 55c to 82½c per 100 leaves. Meanwhile, last week the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals upheld the flexible Tariff Act of 1922 which authorizes the President to raise or lower the tariff within limits...
...late Woodrow Wilson. When big brother became President, little brother agreed not to seek political employment. Without avail, friends of the family urged that Joseph be appointed secretary of the Senate or Postmaster at Nashville, Tenn. Joseph, onetime city editor of the Nashville Banner, even refused to act as Washington correspondent for several newspapers. He died at the age of 59-a successful manager for the Maryland Casualty Co. People said he looked like the War President, except that his features were harder, and genius had not touched his brow...
...Utica, N. Y., vaudeville patrons watched one Louis Furtell's lion act; thrilled as one lion batted the man about the stage, like a big, shaggy kitten mauling a woolen doll around a nursery. Fine actor that lion tamer . . . acted as though he were hurt. Last week Actor Furtell died of his wounds...
...Thief. Another mysterious horror-monger keeps the audience guessing and for no good reason of plot. Yet its crazy eccentricity pops, flares and gyrates the idle curiosity, and gluts the modish thirst for murder in every act. Among those possibly guilty are a set of ex-convicts bearing brands upon their foreheads. This is the first play of Edward E. Paramore Jr., clever writer. It is distinguished by better characterization than is usual or necessary in this dramatic form, is exceptionally well acted (Margaret Wycherly, in particular), and chills as well as any of these things can. It is housed...