Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cruise abroad on Henry Ford's "Peace Ship." He opposes the League of Nations. He was content in 1924 to see the Socialist Party merge its energies with the energies of the Farmer-Laborites, the American Federation of Labor and other bodies at the Conference for Progressive Political Action, which backed his fellow Wisconsinite, the late Robert M. LaFollette. With not even a LaFollette in sight, Mr. Berger will probably confine his attention to legislative reforms, such as unrestricted immigration, minimum wage and child labor laws...
International Business Machines Corp. showed an electric tabulating and accounting machine that automatically compiled data from "tabulating" cards. These cards bear holes punched according to an office code to represent various factors necessary for bookkeeping. The holes regulate the action of counters on the machine. Governments use this system (called the Hollerith) in census work...
Birdmaker Brancusi's U. S. attorney said: "Brancusi takes this action against "The Bird" as a challenge to all his art and to his reputation." Director William Henry Fox offered to buy "The Bird" for the Brooklyn Museum, "if the funds and the sculpture were available...
Some critics cry that here is built up a tragedy, weakened by a happy ending; but the happiness is a realistic accident arising out of the destruction of youth's defiant assuredness. Poetic writing, sensibility to the relationship between men and Nature, insight into the illogicality of human action, human destiny, project the reader into the inscrutable problems and emotions of life, receive critical praise...
...assembly has taken steps to insure immediate convocation through special telephone, telegraph and airplane arrangements. This would seem the most ordinary of precautions, but its unlovely materialism had previously been absent in the rosy abstractions of diplomatic oratory. It seems as though the action of the League is nearly always tardy or indecisive when it depends upon the fourteen chair-holding and voting nations. For example, the Americans who feared the six-to-one British voting ratio will not be mollified to learn that this year Canada has been elected to a voting place. The assurance by the Imperial Government...