Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover conferred with Washington's "Dry" Senator Jones, New Jersey's "Wet" Senator Edge. He induced them to withdraw their joint resolution, pending in Congress, calling for an investigation of prohibition enforcement. In place of Congressional action, Mr. Hoover intends to appoint, shortly after he enters office, a sage, non-partisan committee of perhaps nine or eleven persons to conduct a thorough enforcement inquiry report to Mr. Hoover...
...Boston Herald published these facts, precipitated discussion in the legislature. State Senator James G. Moran was aroused. To him, Governor Fuller's action was suspicious, only seemingly generous. "You should not be misled into thinking," he stated, "that these checks have passed out of the control of the former Governor." He asserted that in the event of Mr. Fuller's death his executors would be compelled to include the checks as assets of the estate and collect the money from the Commonwealth...
Both the University and Freshman polo teams will see action this evening in the fourth round of the Commonwealth Polo Club Tournament to be played in the Commonwealth armory at 8.15 o'clock. The University trio will meet the 101st Field Artillery in the Senior division game, while the 1932 team will play the Cavalry Cossacks...
...resignation of C. C. Little from the presidency of Michigan University will undoubtedly cause widely divergent discussion throughout the country on the possible reason for his action. Any man who has so continually been before the public eye, and who has distinguished himself by activity in a number of different fields undoubtedly deserves such comment...
Tracy Drake, boniface of the smart Drake and Blackstone Hotels, Chicago, protested, last week, against a new action of the Illinois Bell Telephone Co. to cut commissions on income from public booth phones. Said Mr. Drake: "We're all slaves of the monopolistic telephone company. You know we have to pay the loss on bad slugs." To which, William D. Bangs, general counsel for the telephone company, queried: "Is it possible that the clientele of the Blackstone and the Drake should drop bad slugs in the phones...