Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
...Action. The present Secretary of the Interior, Roy O. West, at once acted on Attorney General Sargent's advice and notified Oilman Sinclair's Crude Oil Purchasing Co.* to stop removing Salt Creek oil. To some 100 other lessors in the Salt Creek field, word was sent that the U. S. elected to take all its royalties in cash until further notice. The Department of Justice began preparing a new fraud suit against Oilman Sinclair. Secretary West cancelled all extension contracts for U. S. royalty oil, and ordered investigation of all oil leases made by Fall and still...
...into business, one or two hundred state senators and legislators become the actual directors of that business. Even if they were supermen and if there were no politics in the United States, no body of such numbers could competently direct commercial activities; for that requires initiative, instant decision and action...
Come what might in the election, however, nothing was likely to efface certain Midland memories of Smith-in-action...
...University soccer team will meet an aggregation of booters from Clark University of Worcester on Soldiers Field this afternoon at 3 o'clock, while the Freshmen team will see action at the same time at Andover against the schoolboy eleven...