Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entire Crimson pitching squad will be ready for action after an idleness of over a week, and Coach Mitchell has not as yet definitely decided upon his first choice. Howard Whitmore '29 or W.H. MacHale '31 seem to be the likely candidates for the twirling assignment, but R.R. Ketchum '29 might possibly be called upon to face the Northerners. Otherwise the Crimson lineup will be substantially the same as in previous games with A.G. Whitney '29 figuring in the only radical change...
...hours were required for the 71st Congress formally to get seated in the capitol last week and prepare itself for work. Called by President Hoover because Idaho's Senator Borah induced him during the presidential campaign to promise quick legislative action on farm relief and tariff revision, the session, an "extraordinary" one, was to prove a testing ground of the President's potency as a political leader...
...give the affair a final news fillip, Joseph Edward Sheedy, executive vice president of the Chapman company, announced that the Leviathan and later the ten other U. S. Lines vessels purchased from the U. S. (TIME, Feb. 18), would sell liquor outside the 12-mile limit. To support his action, Mr. Sheedy advanced the opinion of the U. S. Supreme Court in Cunard v. Mellon, 1923, in which it was decided that the 18th Amendment applied only to the territorial waters of the U. S. for domestic as well as foreign ships. It is under this decision that foreign ships...
...into any agreement or compact with another state. . . ." Interstate treaties were rare, though not new.* Secretary Wilbur prepared to send Dr. George Otis Smith, Chief of the Geological Survey, to see the governors of "three or four" of the largest oil producing states, with a view to starting cooperative action.† Meanwhile crude oil production, lacking any restrictions, jumped up 30,850 barrels last week over the week prior, to a total of 2,658,100 barrels...
...gentlemen opposite wish us to do, raised the tariff, we would be creating in the minds of the American people the very sentiment which would cause them to raise their tariff higher perhaps than it was ever their intention to raise it. We do not intend to take any action of that provocative character...