Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such warnings of cattle-herding in U. S. prisons provoked no action in official Washington. Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, for eight years the Assistant Attorney-General responsible for prison conditions as well as Prohibition and tax cases, spent more time worrying about the conduct of Federal wardens than prodding Presidents Harding and Coolidge to get more cells built...
...sake of convention. It is a picture for people who like love on yachts and among the members of High Society. Billie Dove, beautifully dressed, dark-eyed, slightly abstracted, seems only remotely concerned with it. Silliest shot: frustrated Rod La Rocque smashing a huge bowl ornamented with mermaids in action...
...months, like bad-tempered mice before a large and dignified cat, Linz Socialists have been watching Prince Ernst, eager to catch him in a definitely illegal action. Weeks ago they complained that Prince Ernst was not only commandant of the Upper Austrian Heimwehr, Austria's secret reactionary military organization, but had been equipping Heimwehr troops at his own expense, drilling them on the grounds of his castle, just as his ancestors drilled and equipped their henchmen. Complacent Linz police saw no reason to interfere. Prince Ernst might be drilling, they said, but he was breaking...
...this economic plea. After parents and students were put out of the room, the Board voted to dismiss the Dean, elected one David Wilson from Hampden Sidney College, Va. At most colleges the problem of cigaret smoking between classes is solved without economic and moral issues, without even any action by the college. Signs warn: "NO SMOKING IN THIS BUILDING-Border of the board of underwriters...
...interest payments on his Enquirer-Sun bonds. Robert Lee McKenney of the Macon (Ga.) News asked for a foreclosure. Receivers named were Mr. Harris and one George C. Woodruff. The Editors Harris were ordered to remain as editors, while a reorganization is effected. Simple was the explanation for the action as outlined by the Macon Telegraph next day: "The two Harrises . . . have made a real contribution to this state, because they have dared to think and say. . . . Their task was not simply to continue a going newspaper?it was to bring an almost moribund newspaper to a healthy state. Insufficient...