Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge officers have been contented with warning offenders up to the present time, but Sergeant King declares that prosecutions will follow within a week, unless action is taken in the matter. Drivers are liable to a fine of $100 if their cars are not registered; and if they are not insured, as required in Massachusetts, any amount of damages can be collected in case of accident...
Three years ago there was a similar situation, arising mostly among students at Technology. Several convictions were made, and fines levied. If owners of out-of-State cars register now, probably no action will be taken, but later a penalty may be inflicted...
...last-minute effort to get action the most famed of Mexican feminists, Dona Sofia Villa de Buentello, a handsome woman in her early 40's, called on President Emilio Portes Gil. Women she declared would make ideal pollwatchers and ballot-counters "because they would not let themselves be corrupted or suborned, nor can they hope to win high Government posts by selling themselves vilely." In a word Dona Sofia asked the President to decree 100% feminine custody of the presidential vote. He promised to ponder her suggestion, gallantly bowed her out; soon the Ministry of Interior announced: "Federal troops will...
...Janeiro would suspend trading '"indefinitely." Came urgent messages from President Luis. The exchanges reopened. Frenzied coffee speculators begged the President to save the coffee situation by declaring a general moratorium. This he flatly refused to do, patiently explained how ruinous to Brazil's commercial credit such action would be. The result of the week's alarums and pronouncements seemed to leave President Luis, like Atlas, supporting Brazil's top-heavy coffee market on his own slight shoulders...
...have long known that Yale teams were suffering from something and now this something appears to have been excessive purity. Already there is a movement afoot to add to Yale's motto, Lux et Veritas, the word Puritas. Later this year when you view the Yale team in action, I am happy to tell you that you will find the players appropriately arrayed in helmets of a glistening white...