Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics. Let Labor's political action in 1924, when it endorsed La Follette because neither Democrats nor Republicans sought to please Labor, be a warning to the two big parties next year...
Exasperated, the Paris press in particular looked upon the action as little less than impudence and forthwith began a campaign look-ing .toward his recall. The French Government was constrained to ask its envoy in Moscow, M. Jean Herbette, to make friendly recommendations to the Kremlin to this effect. But the Bolshevik authorities remained deaf to the French request and dumb so far as M. Rakovsky was concerned...
...work goes in the teeth of German protests against monuments of this type. Only recently the Berlin Government made unofficial representations against a War memorial at Dinant, Belgium, depicting a German soldier holding above his head a baby speared on a bayonet. Nevertheless, Mr. Warren said that his action in regard to the Louvain Library reflected the sentiments of most of the population of Louvain...
...investigations, put their money into these securities, we hereby make the following offer. . . . We will defray the actual cost of [law suits]; and, in the end, will reimburse all depositors for the difference between the net amounts, if any, that may be finally received by you through such action or proceedings and the par value of the debentures deposited by them...
...Inasmuch as the Bard wrote without the use of a curtain, many of his scenes are bound so closely together that any appreciable wall destroys the continuity of action. For this reason I have arranged to make the intermissions between acts and scenes of a minimum duration; this can easily be accomplished with our type of semi-permanent scenery. When the wait does not exceed half a minute the theatre is kept dark in order to maintain the flow of action and proven occasion for untimely criticism and comparison. For instance, in the ghost scene of "Hamlet," when the prince...