Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strong man can seize power. The method is dictatorship and an organized minority. "The Bolshevik, minority," as Steffins said, "waiting amid the first mob democracy in Petrograd, waited for its splitting into minorities, and seized power at the psychological moment." Lenin stated in defense of that course of action, during an interview with Steffens, "It will be more significant in history if we try out the Marxian system than if we made a successful regime...
After three days of complete rest from the steady drive of the regular practice sessions, the University football squad will return to action on Soldiers Field this afternoon to launch its final drive in preparation for the climatic clash with the Yale bulldog, less than two weeks off. The Crusader contest this Saturday will be an excellent opportunity to set the Crimson gridiron machine in motion once again and oil up the rusty cogs before the biennial journey to the Bowl at New Haven...
Theodore Elijah Burton, 77 most famed and revered of all active Ohio Statesmen, strong of voice, quick to action. He has been in the Senate before. And both before and after his previous Senatorial term he served as Congressman, being thereby unique in U. S. history...
...recommendations made by the Erskine Bureau in 1927 after a year investigation of Boston traffic have all been made effective by the City Counter continued Halsey. "The most important of these in fact the key stone for any further action was the establishment of a permanent Traffic Engineering Division for the city...
...Such action, exemplary, commendable has been taken by Princeton University. Salaries of professors now range from $6,000 to $9,000; of associate professors from $4,500 to $5,750; of assistant professors, from $3,000 to $4,250; of instructors, from $1,800 to $2,750. One hundred and thirty-one members of the faculty received salary increases. A higher scale of faculty salaries was recommended two years ago by the Princeton Board of Trustees...