Word: proceeds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement for the reduction of crime (TIME, Aug. 10). Mr. Wickersham brought in a report of a committee on organization. It provided for a National Crime Commission, an informal body of prominent citizens, to be headed by a chairman, who should select a small committee, a finance committee and proceed by indirect means to a war on crime...
...Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after a dull debate by a vote...
...French Resident General in Morocco, who will continue to be the supreme French civil authority in the Protectorate. "My duty," said Marshal Petain, "is to coordinate the reinforcements which are being sent to Morocco continuously. Those going from France will land at the Casablanca and those from Algeria will proceed directly to Taza. The question is to "use them actively in the area...
...Cambridge rotorists managed, with a 12-mile breeze, to proceed at 3 knots an hour. They estimated that whereas a 10 horsepower engine would have been needed to drive their craft 6 miles an hour by propeller, the rotor and a 15-mile wind would take them 7 miles an hour with an exertion, from the put-put-put-ing motor that turned the rotor, of 1½ horsepower...
After telling your readers how much Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has desired to keep out ot public notice, you proceed to give intimate parts of her history, even telling of the fracturing of "a small bone in her shoulder, rudely tearing aside the curtain that you say she wished drawn about her own private affairs; following her on board the steamer and there showing how clever you are by pointing out the number of her rooms and showing her in bed with "white gardenias on her dresser...