Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should our protest go unheeded, we request that you refer to these catastrophes in the Thanksgiving Proclamation. Your action in this matter will be a sufficient reply to our request...
...RESOLVED: That the action of the Senator from Connecticut in placing Mr. Charles L. Eyanson upon the official rolls of the Senate at the time and in the manner set forth ... is contrary to good morals and senatorial ethics and tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute and such conduct is hereby condemned...
...concession was made by Senator Norris. He accepted into his resolution a phrase suggested by Senator Glenn of Illinois that Bingham's action was "not the result of corrupt motives." Thus softened, the Norris resolution was adopted by the Senate, 54 to 22, old guard Republicans supporting their Connecticut colleague...
...advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules, whereas any action in the metals salient was checked by the absence of General Reed. Even Field Marshal Simmons left his front-line headquarters for the rear. Democratic Adjutant General Walsh (of Montana) stormed: "I object to Saturday being made a day of leisure for some Senators...
...Isle of Lost Ships (First National). This is the dialog adaptation of a six-year-old picture built around the legend that there is an island in the Sargasso Sea composed of wrecked hulls. Action gets going around three survivors of the latest wreck?a girl, a man convicted of murder, a comedy detective. Occasionally effective camera work fails to make up for stolid sequences of dialog explaining the locale, or for the pathetic struggle between the hero and the scav- engers who live on the lost ships. Silliest shot: the super-scavenger being ceremoniously married to the unconscious body...