Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would go down in history as indeed a weak-kneed President who, within the first year of his office, should let slip from the office's authority so great a power as the one which was given the President in the Tariff Act of 1922, the power to raise or lower duties by 50% upon recommendation of the President-appointed Tariff Commission...
Jones-White Merchant Marine Act...
...motherhood an act of God? This question, involving all the profundities of metaphysics, faith and physiology might well give pause to anyone, however learned. The answer YES would surely affront countless atheists, agnostics. The answer NO would just as surely anger multitudes of the pious. Yet several men were actually confronted with this question last week and expected to make a public reply...
...scrimmage today between the A and B outfits D. T. Finlayson '33, first string tackle, broke his ankle. Finlayson was in the act of breaking through the line when he sustained the injury, which is serious enough to keep him out of the lineup for at least five weeks. He is a brother of Murdock Finlayson '32, giant lineman of last year's Freshman team. Francisco will probably take Finlayson's place in the game tomorrow...
Charged with being imported in violation of the Tariff Act of 1922 as books of an "obscene nature", an order of 375 volumes sent from the Librairie Ernest Flammerion of Paris, France, and consigned to the Phillips Book Store are being held at the New York Customs House...