Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Formula. By not objecting the Council members approved a resolution recommending to the Assembly of the League of Nations that it take the following action: 1) Admit Germany to the League and to a permanent Council seat. 2) Raise the number of nonpermanent seats from six to nine. 3) Make three of the nine non-permanently seated nations eligible for reelection...
...Schacht, though accounted sage in German and Allied financial circles, has something of a penchant for starting ill considered libel suits. His most famous action of this sort was to bring suit for libel against a German music publisher who had attached jazz music to a callow poem indisputably written by Herr Schacht in his youth and sold by him at that time for a pittance to a German magazine from whom it was purchased by the music publisher...
...hope shone last week on the Mexican impasse. During the week James A. Flaherty, Supreme Knight of Columbus, called on President Coolidge but disappointed sensationmongers when he appealed only for "sympathetic action in any way possible within the bounds of international law" in behalf of Mexican Catholics. It had been supposed that Mr. Flaherty would request U. S. intervention, withdrawal of recognition, or some other drastic curb on the Calles anti-Catholic program...
...adherence to the World Court (TIME, Feb. 8, 1925). Originally this meeting was called under League auspices (TIME, March 29) but U. S. League opponents have raised such an uproar that the delegates thought it wiser not to meet in the comfortable and vacant League of Nations Palace. No action was taken on the Senate's reservations last week...
...unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries in a rattling dance, Moran and Mack, funny in spite of stale skits, Julius Tannen, dialogue comedian, and best of all, Julius Tannen's trained seal, who misbehaved beautifully. This is hardly enough light...