Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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York County medical men were planning last week for some action to check "hexers" and "powwow doctors." Inspection of the Pennsylvania statutes revealed a law passed against witchcraft in 1861. The new legislature is to be asked to make it more stringent. According to Coroner L.U. Zech last week, three-fourths of the 150,000 people of York County believe to some extent in witchcraft...
...longer. Once before, under deadly parallel circumstances, a Mayor of New York had lost caste when a gambler's murderers were brought to justice slowly during his administration.* So Mayor James John Walker called for his Police Commissioner and gave him a certain number of days to get "action...
With $700,000 on hand for the building of the long-anticipated athletic plant and the prospect of losing $250,000 of it if work is not begun by February, the necessity of immediate and courageous action on the part of the athletic authorities cannot be denied. The announcement that, funds or no funds for the fourth, construction on the first three floors or the new gymnasium will begin next week, marks a direct effort to sever the Gordian knot. New precedent or not, Mr. Bingham has proved that he is quite capable of dealing with the numerous annoying hindrances...
...being improved. The affairs of the "house" are in charge of the students themselves, delegating their authority to the presidents of the four classes, who are advised and assisted by the three members of the faculty. The students take the management of their dormitory quite seriously, and no disciplinary action has so far been found necessary because of infringement of the self-imposed regulations...
...will be produced, as have the miracle plays in previous years, against the cathedral background in the Germanic Museum. The play has received the more specific title of "Our Lord's Coming and Childhood", and the translation has robbed it of none of the native beauty of rhyme and action that characterizes the original classic of Gaelic literature...