Word: alterations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decision does not greatly alter the force of the Volstead Act. That Act forbids the manufacture, etc., for sale, of intoxicating beverages and defines such beverages as those containing more than ½% of alcohol. But tucked away in the Act is a sentence which says...
...personnel of the committee which is directing the change guarantees that it will not be another halfhearted attempt to alter matters for the better. And looking at the special circumstances of the University's nearness to Boston there seems to be every reason for predicting success to the reorganized bureau. Once its aims are fully realized the American ideal of education for all who desire it will not seem as Utopian in Cambridge as it may seem...
...Whether or not he has any special interest in the Far East is a question that will not alter our attitude toward the new Ambassador. We welcome a man who comes to our country with a clean, white sheet of paper, free of experience. He may be freer to do what he believes ought to be done...
...roared the Communists in anger. The noise of mad cheering grew wilder and wilder. The Communists fairly danced and shrieked with rage. The Ludendorffists turned about and fixed the Diplomatic Gallery with a cold, calculating glare of insolence, shook their fists at the assembled diplomats. But nothing served to alter the cheerful mien of M. de Margerie, French Ambassador to .Germany. Pandemonium fit for a madhouse continued. In vain did the President rap his desk and tinkle his bell. Some minutes later he succeeded in reducing the noise to an excited drone and announced that the finals-vote...
Premier Herriot was forced to see the point. He announced last week that any project designed to modify the present status of Alsace and Lorraine would be submitted to Parliament before being put into effect. This statement was taken to indicate that the Government had abandoned its plan to alter immediately the laws of the Provinces in favor of a progressive assimilation to La Mere Patrie. M. Herriot's proposed trip to the Provinces gives additional corroboration...