Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...important pieces of legislation referred to were, of course, the Deficiency Bill, the Revenue Act, the Alien Property Bill. In addition, from Dec. 5 to Dec. 21 the House had passed 19 other bills and joint resolutions, and 25 resolutions requiring House action only...
...continued existence affirmed by a specific vote, the Senate campaign funds committee under the Missouri Reed invited Senator-suspect Smith of Illinois to come and add to his testimony on his 1926 campaign. Mr. Smith had asked for a postponement. The committee set his hearing for Jan. 7. Further action in the case of Senator-suspect Vare of Pennsylvania was less definitely postponed. Mr. Vare, at home in Philadelphia, was abed with influenza...
...Reformation, but they would mould antiquated rules of Church discipline into harmony with modern needs. For example, the need of extending facilities for partaking of Holy Communion had made it seem wise to sanction reservation of the Sacrament (see RELIGION). Finally, Their Lordships should be guided by the action of the Assembly of the Church in approving the volume now presented for authorization...
...Communist Party Congress- a great hive of angry bees which have been droning monotonously at Moscow-took drastic action, last week, and expelled from the party 98 extremely prominent Communists. In Russia, expulsion from the one and only party permitted to exist is a sentence of political death. No Russian not a Communist in good party standing, can hold public office. The 98 who were thus "politically executed," last week, suffered this penalty because they are supporters of two World-known Russian statesmen who have tried to lead an Opposition in the Communist party but were recently expelled from...
Said Walter Maughan, General Passenger Manager of the Canadian Pacific Railways (which own the steamship company), at Montreal last week: "It is not unusual among important enterprises when action occurs that is considered inimical by any one interested, for the decks to be cleared. . . ." What was such inimical action or by whom done, he, prudent, did not state. But it is well known in Montreal, as in Liverpool, that Canadian Pacific operators were vexed at the recent announcement of the Cunard Line that the Cunarders Athenia, Antonia, Ansonia, and Letitia would be reconditioned to carry only tourist third class...