Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a recent editorial in the CRIMSON advocating the establishment of a uniform minor sport award the Harvard Athletic Committee at its last meeting also took action on the question. A committee of three Seniors, composed of A. S. Woodworth '29, chairman, A. E. French '29, and Hulburd Johnson '29 was appointed to look into the matter and report to the committee at its June meeting. An effort will be made to sound out the undergraduate feeling and find the best possible solution...
President Hoover commended this voluntary action of the carriers as "a fine act of co-operation...
Canada has no less of a surplus wheat problem than the U. S. and it was by action in that quarter that U. S. relief plans may yet be nullified. The Canadian wheat surplus on April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below...
Than plump Lieut. Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, M. P., the Liberal who turned Laborite two years ago "To Get Action," the statesman who once said of H. G. Wells, "the old gentleman has gone gaga," the British Laborite party has no more conspicuous member. Last week as plump Commander Kenworthy was preparing for a hotly contested general election, his mother had a fist fight with her landlady...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the action of its Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry in striking from its list of "new and nonofficial remedies" a number of ergot preparations (important to women) believed to contain "putrefactive amines." Dr. Henry Hurd Rusby, Dean of Columbia University's College of Pharmacy, hailed this action as a step forward in his campaign against impure ergot, which he declares is now entering the U. S. from Russia and Poland (TIME, April 15). A scientist, Dr. Rusby resented and denounced any suggestion that his attack on Russian and Polish...