Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...employer dismissed him for engaging in politics but he said: "If I can help end the domination of this machine.and reduce taxes in Jersey City so that I can sell real estate, I will be satisfied." He called Mayor Hague "grafter" and "political coward." Mayor Hague took no action. Then Mr. Burkitt lost his voice. "I guess I'll have to rest for a spell," he whispered, "but . . . it's not the eggs and vegetables...
With characteristic British self-righteousness the Foreign Secretary added, "This country has never treated war as an instrument of national policy. . . . No British Government would take an action of that kind...
...spruce at 67, who realized in 1917 the dream of Medieval Crusaders by capturing the Holy City of Jerusalem from Infidels who are still Infidels. Likewise among the twelve is Admiral Earl Jellicoe, trim and hearty at 68, who commanded the British Grand Fleet in the victorious though costly action at Jutland (1916) after which Ger mans did not again dispute the seas with Britons. The remaining Knights inducted, last week, were: General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse, General Sir John Maxwell, Lieutenant General Sir Alfred Keogh, Admiral Sir Henry Bradwordine Jackson, Admiral Baron Wester Wemyss, Admiral Sir Charles Madden...
...League States took no action last week; and the Nationalists thereupon called to Paris requesting Dr. C. C. Wu, distinguished statesman, and son of the late Chinese Minister to the U. S., Wu Ting-fang to proceed at once to Washington and explain the Nationalist case against Japan before U. S. public opinion. At Paris last week Dr. Wu, who is on a round-the-world trip for the Nationalist...
...useful activity, such participation is not the peak of the club's achievement during the present year. The value of airplane racing for the college pilot is open to question in the minds of others besides President Angell of Yale, who on Monday, although assigning no reason to his action, forbade Yale undergraduates from entering in any meet for an indefinite length of time...