Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that the ship in question may have been violating the laws of the United States, but the offense did not warrant its being sunk beyond the twelve mile limit. Such an action offers the British government excellent grounds for protest and leaves this country without a valid excuse. The enthusiasm of the coast guard in executing their duties might be satisfactory to the W. C. T. U., but their breach of international etiquette certainly will not find favor in diplomatic circles...
...which a public hearing could be properly injected. ... I respectfully urge that the provision for a public hearing on these matters be eliminated [from the bill]. . . . Whether the final decision of the Department should be a public document presents a somewhat different problem, though it would seem such action is open to most of the objections above enumerated...
Secretary Mellon said he took the action because of "unexpressed Congressional policy" and added: "The publication of the decisions will . . . show conclusively that the Treasury has nothing to hide, that there .is nothing mysterious about tax refunds...
...like women to meddle in the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See. Such matters are not their concern. The action of one woman, the widow of a man who had important documents, has done much harm already...
...Campus heartily approves this action of the Council. Here is a field in which we can feel perfectly at home and at an advantage over most institutions; there is no doubt that a very fine group can be gathered at the College, one which will offer stiff competition to any college team in the country. C.C.N.Y. has long been silently revered for the quality of its scholarship; it now has the opportunity to give expression to that admiration...