Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...difficult to prophesy election results in Philadelphia. The effect of Philadelphia's bootleg investigation had to be considered (TIME, Sept. 17 et seq.). In that citadel of Vare Republicanism the Volstead act carried all its ghostly, malevolent outriders. Flagrant police corruption had been exposed. Suspects in higher positions has ceased to wink, begun to blink. The Vare regime was receiving unwelcome, unpleasant publicity...
...With a President committed to the support of the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead act, a dry Congress and the dry public sentiment demonstrated in this election, the way is open for increasingly effective prohibition enforcement...
Shipping. Defraying three-fourths of the construction expenses of four combined cargo and passenger vessels to total 32,800 gross tons, the Shipping Board last week loaned the Export Steamship Corp. of New York, $4,500,000. This was the loan under the new Jones-White Merchant Marine Act...
Harvard Men Act at Falmouth...
...business, publicity, and stage departments of the Dramatic Club will meet Wednesday at Ridgely Annex at 7 o'clock. Men who prove capable in the Club's performances this winter and next spring will be taken to the Woods Hole Theatre next summer, from which they may act in the New York theatre after leaving college. Acting candidates will sign the blue books at Leavitt and Peirce...