Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Immigration Act of 1924 makes it the duty of steamship companies to ascertain that all alien passengers coming to the United States are in possession of proper travel documents and the failure of an alien passenger to present upon arrival the appropriate visa, or re-entry permit, places the steamship company under a penalty of $1000. You can understand that if the Government is lax in requiring the steamship companies to comply with the provisions of the laws relat ing to the documentation of passengers that it would seriously interfere with the administration of the immigration laws. Miss Komarmicka apparently...
...methanol (synthetic wood alcohol) for 48? per gallon; in the U. S. the production costs range from 72? to 75?. So, last week President Coolidge raised the tariff on methanol from 12? to 18? per gallon, thereby using the full extent of his power under the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922, which authorizes him to change duties within limits of 50%. This is the eighth time that President Coolidge has raised the tariff; twice (on live bob white quail and paintbrush handles) he has lowered it. ¶General Humbert Nobile, pilot and builder of the dirigible Norge, was presented...
...Democratic opponent, Fulton J. Redman, produced records of a Canadian investigation of 1918 in which Mr. Gould admitted under oath paying $100,000 to one-time Premier J. K. Fleming of New Brunswick in connection with a railway negotiation, which was later found by Canadian courts to be an "act of bribery...
Five years after the act "contra bonos mores" was committed, two and a half years after the first indictments were made, two old men went on criminal trial in the District of Columbia Supreme Court last week. They are charged with a conspiracy to defraud the Government in the leasing of the Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve in California. Everyone has seen their names and their pictures; they both have drooping, pale grey mustaches; they both look as harmless and as worn-out as 70-year-old, double-entry bookkeepers. Their romance has had its fling; their future remains...
Wadsworth House--Massachusetts Avenue at Rhinitis--No couvert--Heavy atmosphere, but unexcelled for those who like-the bailey-hoo kind of amuscment. Chic Sales does his preacher act reularly...