Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speed marked the battle from beginning to end, fast skating honors being shared by both teams. Five minutes of blazing play opened the game, action only slowing down with the introduction of a batch of spares. At this stage McTeer, McGill left defense man, smashed the Crimson defense and got the puck through for the first goal, shooting it from within a yard of the net. In return Harvard assumed the defense and began its bombardment of the Canadian goalie, Powers, who had to meet the onslaugh of a triple Crimson attack time and again...
Chairman Reed Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee and Secretary Mellon of the Treasury engaged last week in a solemn exchange of letters-for-publication. Senator Smoot suggested, Secretary Mellon agreed, that it might be wise to "delay" action of the Revenue Act of 1928 until after March 15, when the 1927 income tax returns will be available...
...adroit political shift by the Administration to chastise those business groups (notably the U. S. Chamber of Commerce) which have been urging a far larger tax cut than Secretary Mellon thinks safe. It was also interpreted as a move to put anti-Administration senators on the defensive for the action of their colleagues in the House, who wrote a tax-cut 65 millions larger than the Treasury advised...
Actually, the Smoot-Mellon "delay" was mostly paper work. What with hearings, debates, compromises, the Senate would not get into action on the tax bill much before March 15 anyway...
...such pure, understanding tact, observers thought, was finely typical of M. Chiappe. They recalled how he won fame (TIME, June 27) by his quiet, skillful arrest of Leon Daudet, editor of L'Action Francaise. Theatric, irrepressible M. Daudet had barricaded himself against the police and was supported by stalwart young Royalists armed with canes. Moreover public sympathy was with Daudet-both because of his high spirit and because the offense for which he had been sentenced to jail was merely technical. In such circumstances the arrest had to be nonviolent. M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe solved...