Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paper. Complaint was made that if the three-year provision were dropped the new fleet would remain at the blue-print stage indefinitely. To bolster this argument it was recalled that in 1924 Congress authorized eight cruisers, none of which is yet completed, due to slow White House action...
President-Elect Hoover was involved last week in the time-limit phase of the cruiser question. Chairman Fred Britten (Ill.) of the House Naval Affairs Committee, biggest of the big-navy group, issued a statement, presumably with intent to influence the Senate's action on the time-limit provision...
...understood that yesterday's developments were brought to their culmination only by the action of the Lampoon itself. The attitude of the University towards the Lampoon, it was learned, was one of indifferent quiescence as long as the Lampoon held to innocuous humor, but when the straw that broke the camel's back, in the form of Lampy's most recent indiscretions entered the situation, the college authorities reached the conclusion that, foreclosure of the mortgage was the only action compatible with Harvard dignity...
...dissolution of the St. Paul's Society and the withdrawal of the St. Paul's Catholic Club from the Phillips Brooks House Cabinet were announced yesterday by the officers of the three organizations. The action was a further step in the reorganization of the Brooks House Association which began with making smaller and more effective the Cabinet and centering the executive power of Brooks House within the organization itself by depriving the University of its former privilege to participate in Brooks House elections. The decision was the result of a vote of the Cabinet at its monthly meeting last Tuesday...
Relay Team Has Seen Action...