Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Agriculture Committee will meet on March 27 and is expected to have a farm relief measure ready for Congress to act on as soon as it meets. The Republican members of the Ways & Means Committee are already quietly writing a tariff bill? it will be known as the Smoot-Hawley bill ?without consulting their Democratic colleagues. Because of their majority the Republicans can report the bill and probably get it through the House under a special rule prohibiting amendments. In the Senate, however, where no such rule will apply, the question will be torn wide open and the bill...
...names of 23 men who are to act as ushers were given out by W. D. Vogel '30, chairman of the committee. The following Juniors were named...
...five year maximum sentence for all violations of the Volstead Act, thereby making any infraction of this law a felony whereas before minor first offenses had been only misdemeanors* Several misdemeanors are necessary to deport an undesirable alien. For one felony he may be sent promptly out of the U.S. By this penal change alien bootleggers may be shipped swiftly from the country...
Conservatives have been grooming "Old Gwilym" for years in his role of bait, have twice tried and failed to get him elected to Parliament from a worker constituency, are trying again. In 1927 he championed with jovial humbuggery the Trade Dispute's Act-probably the most tyrannical piece of legislation ever passed in England to squelch strikes...
...Papal lands and corresponding revenues were seized by the Italian State. Today, however, the State has promised, in the newly signed Italo-Papal treaty & concordat (TIME, Feb. 18), to indemnify the Holy See for its losses of 1870 by a cash payment of $92,000,000. Therefore the act of Pope Pius, last week, in despatching a half-million francs worth of "Peter's Pence" to Mexico, seemed to augur that a new underlying theory of "Peter's Pence" is being evolved by the prelates of the Papal State...