Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed Senator Sheppard's bill amending the Federal Reserve Act to permit discounting or purchase of bills of exchange on agricultural shipments; sent it to the House...
...Lobbying as defined and understood in this act shall consist of any effort to influence the action of Congress upon any matter coming before it, whether . . . by distributing literature, appearing before committee . . . or seeking to interview individual members...
...their chairman. Explaining his neutrality, Mr. Rockefeller announced that he was still "seeking the facts . . . and will take such steps in the matter as he thinks proper. Since more than 50,000 other stockholders of the Indiana Company are involved, it is obvious that Mr. Rockefeller must not act precipitately...
...Robbery in Buffalo, for example, must be a particularly lucrative calling. As arrests are made in only 3% of the cases, the number who are finally convicted is necessarily so small that the luckless individual who is occasionally caught and convicted must attribute his misfortune to an act of God, as he would in case of disastrous storm, shipwreck or earthquake...
...first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...