Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...favor the repeal of the Volstead Act, nor do I favor repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. I believe the Eighteenth Amendment is here to stay and that citizens and officials would better put in their time considering how they may observe the laws of their country and respect its Constitution rather than to give their efforts to plans whereby the law may be evaded and the Constitution broken down...
...Passed a bill by Senator Watson extending to March 1929 the life of the Federal Radio Commission, enlarging its power over "chain hookups" and direct radio advertising; sent it to the House, postponing confirmation of appointees to the Commission until the House should act on the bill...
...this election, Col. Smith will run as martyr. Presumably, no more moneys from Samuel Insull, public utilities potentate, will be required to send Col. Smith back to Washington to discover whether the Senate's recent treatment of him was a personal censure or an act "outlawing 7,000,000 people" for their approval of the Insull-bolstered Smith campaign...
...moment befell for her first aria, 'Mi chiamano Mimi,' which contained so many errors of note and time particularly in the tricky opening phrase, that Mr. Bellezza in the orchestra pit must have suffered not a few palpitations of angina pectoris. Like many another tone in this act, the final high C was gratingly off pitch...
Carl Wiedemann (owner of famed racehorse, In Memoriam) arrived in a special car at the Atlanta Penitentiary to serve a two-year term for violation of the Volstead Act. His father, George, president of the Wiedemann Brewing Co., did not go to jail with him, but paid the U. S. a $10,000 fine. His horse, In Memoriam, remained on his stud farm at Newport, Ky., munching bluegrass. As a three-year-old, In Memoriam outran Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair's swift Zev at the $50,000 Latonia stakes on Nov. 3, 1923. Two weeks later, Zev defeated...