Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money and men poured after the waters into the Mississippi basin. State militia went into action, forcing stubborn and panicky people to leave their homes. Secretary Hoover established an executive base at Memphis. All around raged tragedy, havoc, cosmic comedy...
...opinion that the position which we took during the War was correct, and we do not regret our action, in fact we are proud of it. But he who shuts his ears to the voice of his adversary in times of peace prolongs the hatred engendered by war. That is why you might like to send a message to my comrades...
...always keeping his audience's interest at a high point with concrete stories, and showed how every individual is controlled by heredity and environment. After making his point he drew the logical conclusion that if a man is controlled by society and can exert very little control over his actions, society has no right to punish him for action it has taught him itself...
These facts, in brief, go to show that the safeguards surrounding criminal trials in Massachusetts have been radically altered during the last sixty years by legislative action; that in 1860 capital cases were tried before four justices of the Supreme Judicial Court; that the present practice in which a capital case may be heard by only one judge is an anomaly in Massachusetts history, an experiment of barely ten years standing when Sacco and Vanzetti were brought to trial (and a clearly dangerous experiment): and that for this reason, public concern in its working is not only justified but demanded...
...action takes place in a sort of freak and side show in Vienna, and is compact and admirably simple...