Word: acted
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...been no immediately available successor to the White House. The next in line was the Senate's President pro tem, but Congress was not in session and had elected no such officer. As a result of this and other crises, Congress in 1886 passed a new Presidential Succession Act, making the Secretary of State next in line after the Vice President...
...first plane trip as President, asked Congress for another succession law. Its provisions: make the Speaker of the House first in line, and after him the Senate President pro tem. After them would come the Secretary of State and other Cabinet officers, as prescribed in the 1886 Act...
Hunt's promptly sought an injunction, sued the union for treble damages, charged that the union had violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by combining to restrain trade. Ruling on an appeal, the Supreme Court, in a bitterly argued 5-to-4 decision, threw the company's case out the window...
Said Justice Black, for the majority: "The only combination here was one of workers alone, and what they refused to sell petitioner was their labor. It is not a violation of the Sherman Act for laborers in combination to refuse to work. They can sell or not sell their labor as they please and upon such terms and conditions as they choose...
...fact or fiction, has proved no more certain an index to popularity than literary merit. With its sensational expose of the "meat trust" in 1906, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle created a furore worthy of Zola and led directly to the passage of the Pure Food and Drugs Act. But on the year's best-seller list it was handily topped by the newest novels of three perennial favorites, Winston Churchill, Owen Wister (Lady Baltimore), and Robert W. Chambers (The Fighting Chance...