Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signor Mussolini's action against Dr. Ferrero follows his policy of keeping his enemies within sight and under control. Abroad he would have virtually no control over them and no jurisdiction whatever. Hence, amenable to Fascist law, he keeps them where, if they displease him, he can jail them without a boo from anybody-who matters...
This "guilt" had attached itself to Mr. McAndrew during a legal action against the school board the past summer. A group of 288 teacher-clerks had sought an injunction to prevent the school board from replacing them with civil service (political) appointees. In court, the teacher-clerks had sent for Mr. McAndrew to explain to the judge the nature of their duties. Mr. McAndrew had complied, saying, yes, the duties of teacher-clerks are predominantly educational. They assist the school principals in supervising classroom work; they interview parents, help with home work, aid discipline and even, when needed, teach classes...
...think we will all agree is the crucial test of a given state of civilization, is with us the weakest link in our chain of government. . . ." Mr. Untermyer then suggested spurs to "leaden-footed" U. S. justice-assessing dishonest litigants more heavily, taking action against perjurers...
...great strides made since Darwin's day Sir Arthur was more specific. And he ended by asking: "Was Darwin right when he said that man under the action of biological forces which can be observed and measured, has been raised from a place among the anthropoid apes to that which he now occupies ? The answer is Yes! and in returning this verdict I speak but as foreman of the jury, a jury which has been empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before...
...mature, reticent, adventure-scarred world traveler. He should be enormously courageous, enormously patriotic; should have passed through incredible (almost) adventures and come out enormously modest?and of course unmarried. Let's see? the times are getting so Elizabethan?perhaps he ought to be so thoroughly a man of action that he swears occasionally and, yes, has had to know women, very wicked ones, in the course of his thrilling duty. His name could be Dessiter ? Colonel Dessiter. It might be a good plan to conceal his first name till the very...