Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hope gleams through the black cloud. President Hoover expects to take no action in the matter. Perhaps he has a feeling that Prohibition should be started by Americans...
Boston is at it again. A few years ago a board of burly policemen "laboriously read and censured" Theodore Dreiser's "An American Tragedy." This expedition won the ancient city a renewal of its already venerable fame. But it seems this was not sufficient, or at least the action was not rabid enough. This time "Candide", Voltaire's great philosophical novel has been seized by the Collector of the Port. The immortal work has been arraigned on the charge of "obscenity and obscurity." (Of course, it will surprise no one that M. Voltaire has been found obscure by such gentry...
...Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso: "In the opinion of the House there is a question as to whether 'the Senate's Debenture Plan' contravenes ... the Constitution and is an infringement on the rights and privileges of the House. The action of the House in this instance shall not be deemed to be a precedent." The House agreed, 249 to 119. The Democrats tried vainly to make the vote an oblique test of strength on the Debenture Plan...
...Sugar. In 1924 the Tariff Commission made an investigation of sugar, prepared a report recommending tariff changes, submitted it to President Coolidge. This report, at the time, was supposed to favor a substantial reduction of the sugar duty. A candidate for reelection, President Coolidge pigeonholed the report, delayed action. After he was elected, he refused to make...
...doctor for a lethal drug to end the misery, what is the doctor to do? The patient may be mangled in an accident. He may have cancer, syphilis, some other horror. He wants to die quickly, painlessly. Will the doctor help? Always the answer is "no." But sometimes the action is, silently, covertly, yes; for, although ending another's life or helping him to do so is murder before the Law, an overdose of merciful morphine can always be defended...