Word: actes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...removed from, individual authority and assigned to boards and commissions. ... It is desirable that we first have experience with these groups in action before we create new departments. ... I can see no hope for sound reorganization unless Congress be willing to delegate its authority to the executive who should act upon approval of a joint committee of Congress...
...Sherman Act forbade conspiracy in restraint of trade and commerce or monopolization of any part of trade or commerce. Though the law was aimed at large corporations, an attempt was made to apply it as an anti-Labor measure by arguing that a labor union was a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Clayton Act (1914) restated and explained the Sherman Act and specifically declared that the labor of a human being was not a commodity and that labor unions were not trade-restraining conspiracies...
...What will become of Albert and François?" Frenchmen asked each other last week with sympathetic little shrugs, hoped the answer of Fate would not be too hard. The two old servants were Georges Clémenceau's valet and chauffeur. His last act was to draw their hands to his lips and kiss them, just before he said: "I want no women and I want no tears! Let me die before men" (TIME...
...whole cooperated enthusiastically with the restriction plan; encouraging progress has been made in the Mid-Continent (Oklahoma) fields. California, however, is the crucial point. California increased its production 40% in 1929 and now produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural gas but really meant to limit oil production.* Small producers have questioned the legality of the Lyon Act, but big oilmen maintain that the courts will uphold the validity of the measure and that the law will reduce California's present production...
...natural gas in the earth which forces the petroleum out when wells are driven. The Lyon Act stipulates that natural gas shall be conserved, lest all the natural gas be exhausted and gushers therefore cease to gush. Oil operators have fqond that recycling the gas into the ground is the only practical form of natural gas conservation. Small operators, lacking the capital to construct recycling works, maintain that the measure is discriminatory, invidious...