Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Touch football is the only athletic activity that brings members of all departments of the University together. It is the best of the so-called intramural sports. Played in the open air and requiring fast, clever action, without the incessant running of soccer and lacrosse, or the personal contact of football, the new game offers an ideal exercise for the fall. The unusual amount of interest displayed by undergraduates this year insures a firm backing for the sport in the future...
...founded in his diocese. The Bishop, in short, was keenly interested in Society; he knew Society; he would be able to clarify the special sig nificance of this ducal affair. Before a congregation of 1,000 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Bishop delivered himself. "This action of the Vatican cannot be passed over. It seems to be incumbent upon me to express to our clergy and people, and to any others who are interested, my judgment in the matter." The action of Rome, he pursued, "seems wholly at variance with the teaching of the Roman Church...
Said the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church Manhattan: "The action of the Pope is as impudent as it is illegal. ... It implies that the Duke and the Duchess lived together 25 years without being married...
...clerics thus fulminated some British newspapers devoted scarcely ten lines to Bishop Manning's remarks, and the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to open his lips. Frenchmen and Italians read attentively a statement by Monsignor Massimi, Auditor of the Sacred Rota: "The declaration that the Rota's action was an intrusion and an impertinence leaves It unmoved because this is not the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. . . . The Catholic Church deems the Rota capable of examining the annulment not only of Protestant but of Jewish and Moslem marriages if the grounds are sufficient according to canon law. . . . Canon...
...similar unrest among U. S. banks. Considerable numbers of them failed, prelude to the 1920-21 business depression. Is this Iowa situation symptomatic of a national condition? The Iowa State Banking Department hastened to make up a bulletin: "The condition is purely local. It is simply a concerted action on the part of the banks to stop continued unwarranted withdrawals." After a few days some of the banks reopened to honor demands for withdrawing money...