Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture should be reversed and remanded to the lower house for action consistent with this opinion...
After Mr. Barnes had testified, Chairman Legge publicly corrected him: "The Board did not alter its policies as a result of the hearing given the grain trade nor has the board agreed to submit its policies to the grain trade before action. . . . I don't think Mr. Barnes intended to convey this impression...
Suit Dropped. A breach of promise action against James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, retired champion fisticuffer; by Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorcee, of Fort Worth, Tex.; at Bridgeport, Conn...
...detective than reporter. There has been a murder, and a queer one. The dead man sits at his dining room table, lashed to his chair; breakfast has been laid for four, but nobody has touched it; everywhere is the thick stink of nicotine. The setting is melodramatic, but the action is confused, realistic: the policemen, the loudmouthed, lowbrowed coroner, the witnesses at the inquest, are photographically true to type. The satire on things political, policial, is at times more than implicit. In every detective story there should be a star detective but here he is fallible enough to seem human...
...been "stricken from the rolls of the Navy." Sailor Buchanan said good-bye to his family, went to Richmond, became captain in the Confederate Navy. In March, 1862, in the reconditioned, ironclad Merrimac (rechristened the Virginia) he sallied out against the Union fleet blockading Norfolk. As they went into action, Sailor Buchanan spoke to his men. Said he: "Those ships must be taken, and you shall not complain that I do not take you close enough. Go to your guns!" Down went the U. S. S. Cumberland; the Congress went up in flames. Sailor Buchanan, wounded in the thigh...