Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done to stop the terrible suffering to women in the "birth race" which is sure to ensue for this money. I can think of only one way to stop it, but please print my idea. It is not "highfalutin," but is based on the fact that men will act only from the most sordid self interest...
Will not some rich man think over my plan and act...
Shrewd Illinois congressmen, chiefly Representative Martin Madden, put the Chicago project into the Rivers and Harbors Appropriations Act of the 69th Congress. It called for only $3,500,000 but if passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from...
...Coolidge's approval, providing for an ultimate expenditure of $140,000,000 for the construction of ten 10,000-ton cruisers. 2) In the event of an international disarmament conference, the President is empowered to suspend such construction. 3) No appropriation for the three cruisers authorized by the act of 1924 will be requested at this session. 4) The President will probably soon approve appropriation of $1,000,000 for a 6,000,000-cu-ft. dirigible...
Clarence Darrow: "In Manhattan, I urged violation of the Volstead Act. I recommended the example of early Christians, who 'bootlegged' Christianity into the Roman Empire...