Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...river's development had been broken by Herbert Hoover, not as President but as Secretary of Commerce and chairman of the Colorado River Commission. There he had brought the states into sufficient agreement to make Boulder Dam possible. All smiles, the President said: "This compact . . . represents the most important action ever taken in that fashion under the Constitution. It opens the avenue for some hope of the settlement of other regional questions between states rather than the imposition of those problems on the federal government...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...
...Diet at Worms. Two Weeks Off (First National). Without being particularly original or ambitious, this account of Dorothy Mackaill's affection for a plumber masquerading as a famed actor has a nice flavor. More than half of it is silent, and the long stretches of agreeable, unlikely comic action, punctuated with subtitles, remind you how well the movies used to get along without the sound device. Plumber Jack Mulhall is proud of being a plumber; his theatrical personality is thrust on him by the imaginative girls he meets at Bradley Beach. Best shot: Mulhall showing he is an actor...
Colored television has become possible because Dr. Ives's colleagues at Bell Telephone laboratories invented a photo-electric cell more sensitive to light than the usual cell. The usual cell depends on the ionic action of potassium and hydrogen. The new cell uses sodium with sulphur vapor and oxygen...
...last week Nudism was again in the public eye. It was announced with complete gravity that suave M. Andre de Fouquieres, arbiter elegantarium, had joined the "Committee of Action" of Nudism, that he was a most earnest and enthusiastic apostle...