Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...president of the A. B. A. was dapper Frank J. ("Million-Dollar") Hogan of Washington, "lawyer's lawyer," whose defense clients in suits brought by the Government have included the late Oilman Edward L. ("Teapot Dome") Doheny and Andrew William Mellon.. President Hogan's first act was to ask for a committee to defend citizens, "poor or rich," from invasion of liberties guaranteed them by the Bill of Rights (first ten Constitutional Amendments...
...Bacon Act established a Bacon Revenue Board, with adequate powers to rationalize the British bacon industry and extend subsidies for the improvement of antiquated packing houses...
...Coal Act obliges the private owners of all coal mining royalties to sell these out to the State, as of July 1942, for a total compensation of ?66,450,000 ($332,250,000). This does not nationalize the coal industry (since private interests will continue to operate the mines, paying royalties to the State), but means a mighty stride toward Nationalization...
...Raids Precautions Act injected new activities into every home in the land, set Britons digging bomb shelters in their gardens and parks...
...Infanticide Act repealed the Infanticide Act of 1922 and introduced the reform that an English mother who slays her child before it is one year old is no longer guilty of murder but only of "infanticide," which is punished as manslaughter...