Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fallon R. R. in its dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission on the most fundamental issue in the transportation world-valuation. The Supreme Court, five to three, ruled that the I. C. C. had failed to give to "current reproduction value" the consideration Congress intended in the Transportation Act...
...Transportation Act of 1920 specified that carriers could earn 6 per cent on the value of their property as fixed by the I. C. C. All profits above that figure were "recapturable"-half into the carriers' reserve fund, half to an I. C. C. fund for special loans to less profitable roads...
Among the crowds gawked a lanky, weather-beaten German, Paul Muller, 47- Columbus-wise, he had sailed a 25-foot boat across the Atlantic and arrived at Havana, fortuitously, just in time for the Inaugural. His first act in Havana was to write his German sweetheart a 24-page letter, mostly about the sea and love. Soon he had much more to write to her about, for in Havana he heard many a story, many a scandal about President Machado's administration. Among the authentic stories were: The General governs with iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want...
Goodwin will be University tennis manager in 1931, while Carmen will be manager of the second team next year. Vincent will receive his Freshman numerals and act as manager of his team in the matches with the Yale 1932 team here next Saturday...
Playwright Finsterwald is in her early twenties, a native Detroiter. Last year she was graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, where, studying dramatics, she won an Otto Hermann Kahn prize for a four-act play called Giants and Chains...