Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beyond the U. S. coast line lie three bodies of water: 1) from the shore to the 3-mile limit indisputably under U. S. jurisdiction; 2) from the 3-mile to the 12-mile limit, claimed by the U. S. for "search and seizure" under the 1922 Tariff Act and roughly coextensive with the "one hour's sailing" distance granted under the U. S. ship liquor treaty with Great Britain; 3) the high seas beyond...
...miles off shore) when picked up and pursued by the cutter Walcott. Captain John Thomas Randall of the I'm Alone insisted he was in Body-of-Water Three (14 to 15 miles off shore) when spoken. The Treasury justified its pursuit as "hot and continuous" under the Tariff Act. Great Britain held that such pursuit could only begin within territorial waters (Body-of-Water One), and could not reasonably extend beyond Body-of- Water...
...Springfield the Aurora episode became much-needed ammunition for the Wets in the Legislature in their attempt to repeal the State enforcement act of 1921. Meanwhile Attorney-General Oscar E. Carlstrom prepared to direct the investigation of the De King killing over Car-bary's head...
...Look at this display of good humor -they must be very well off.' If we are serious and thoughtful, then people say it is all hypocrisy. They want to make us believe that everything is bad with them. "The Dawes Plan was a great idea- an act. The Dawes conversion of a political question into an economic question was a masterpiece. It was the outcome of a new and better outlook on life. Therein lay its creative merit. But now-much has changed. "There is danger that the whole business may become a shady horse-trading deal...
...stirring were the footages showing Cardinal La Fontaine, Patriarch of Venice; Cardinal Gamba, Archbishop of Turin; and Cardinal Mam, Archbishop of Pisa, all of whom proceeded directly from the cele- bration of High Mass to vote at the head of their clergy. Photographs of popular Cardinals in the act of dropping their sealed ballots into the voting urn were displayed in all Italian illustrated reviews and Sunday roto-gravures. In sunny Palermo cameras even caught Monsignor Lavitrano as he ostentatiously deposited unsealed a ballot plainly emblazoned with the Fascist device.* Placid, bespectacled Pope Pius XI and other churchmen actually resident...