Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York" was detained at Rouse's Point and fined for the illegal importation of liquors. Since Dr. Jerome Wagner is in no wise related to the Senator, it is obvious that your publication is guilty of unjustifiably connecting the Senator's name with an illegal act...
...platform promises that the Party, if returned to power, will gradually nationalize the coal, transport, power and life insurance businesses and establish minimum wage scales for all earners. Swiftest action is promised to repeal: 1) the Trades Union Act (making a "Coercive" or General Strike illegal); 2) the Trades Disputes Act (restraining unions from making extraordinary levies on their members) ; and 3) the Eight Hour Mines Act (under which British miners now delve an hour a day longer than...
...wise in a democracy to go too far in front of public opinion. The British public is slow to make up its mind, but it is thinking hard. . . . Today even Labor wants to restrict the effect of unfair competition from abroad. Only the Liberals would repeal the Safeguarding Act entirely. The Government is ready to facilitate safeguarding if individual industries prove the necessity of their being protected...
Careful program-perusers noted (among the credits for Mr. Jessel's clothes, etc.) this thank-you: "Soldiers in the second act, veterans of A. E. F., supplied through courtesy of U. S. Veterans' Bureau...
...very page number of obscure cases has confounded many a show-off law student. He works his men hard, regales them with none of his reputed radicalism. During the War he was able assistant successively to the War and Labor Departments. His erudite writings concern the Interstate Commerce Act, Wages, Labor, Criminal Justice. Conspicuous champion of Sacco and Vanzetti, his close study of the case was reflected in newspaper, magazine, and book form. Mrs. Frankfurter is co-editing the dead men's letters (not the forthcoming six volume history of the case sponsored by J. W. Davis, Elihu Root...