Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped a little in the dry weather, the Brule's inhabitants grew hungrier and hungrier. There came an evening when the President canoed home to Cedar Island Lodge with no less than 26 trout. This was one more than Wisconsin's legal limit but Wisconsin took no action. From trout-fishing, the President, one evening, turned to "plugging" for black bass. Guide John Laroque piloted him over the glassy sunset surface of Island Lake, 20 miles from the Lodge. Mrs. Coolidge and the secret-service men watched and applauded. The President caught ten. Another new sport was clay...
...querulous and malapropian but Hero Byng would speak inspiring words. Soon his address climaxed as follows: "We funny old things look to you lads to be the future leaders of the country." . . . Made public last week were the majority and minority reports of the Extraordinary Tribunal constituted by joint action of both Houses of Parliament to determine whether or not an improper Third Degree had been administered to Miss Irene Savidge, an admittedly innocent young woman. The majority report stated that the Scotland Yard police had acted in accordance with traditional procedure and must not therefore be censured, but added...
...session, for the first time in four years. Conservatives redoubled nervous vigilance. Calm impartial observers refreshed their memories as to the actual nature of the Internationale by re-reading Article I of its Constitution. Text: The new International Workmen's Association is formed for the organization of joint action by the proletariats of various countries, who are struggling for the same aims; the overthrow of capitalism, the creation of a dictatorship of the proletariat and an International Soviet Republic for the complete abolition of classes and the realization of Socialism, the first step towards a Communist society...
...impotency of the Internationale to take any disciplinary action against Stalin results from the tremendous influence he exerts through the Communist party of Soviet Russia of which he is nominally "secretary" and actually "boss." Russians are forever reminding Englishmen who protest against the world propaganda of the Third Internationale that when James . Ramsay Macdonald was Prime Minister of Great Britain (Jan.-Nov. 1924), he continued to act as Secretary of the Second (Socialist) Internationale of which the Third (Communist) Internationale was originally a faction until it split off and achieved independence under Nikolai Lenin. The First (Radical) Internationale was organized...
While Cuba was thus preparing for direct, ruthless action, half way measures were again discussed, last week in London, by experts from 24 nations gathered for the International Cancer Conference...