Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...act opened at a hotel breakfast table. James J. Walker, the dapper, glib, little mick who is Mayor of New York, was pleading with photographers and newsgatherers. He held up his coffee cup. "I really want to drink it," he said...
...these in evidence, it is significant to note that while the British Empire produced 67% of the world's rubber in 1922, the percentage fell to 57 last year. This was due, of course, in part, to the curtailment of British rubber production by Parliament under the Stevenson Act. Theoretically this measure was expected to intensify the demand for rubber and consequently raise its price by curtailing the supply. The actual results have been so unsatisfactory that last week a leading British newspaper in Malaya, The Malay Mail, declared: "In many quarters restriction is regarded today as on trial...
That this view is coming to be adopted even in London was shown when Prime Minister Baldwin recently appointed a commission to report upon the advisability of repealing or modifying the Stevenson Act (TIME, March 5). Already the price of rubber has fallen in anticipation that the Commission will report against further curtailment; and it seemed last week that the British Empire has been definitely forced out of its monopolistic position in the world rubber market...
...ROYAL FAMILY-How high grade actors act off-stage (TIME...
...director of many large corporations, president of the First Penny Savings Bank of Philadelphia, one of the most heavily insured men in the world ($7,500,000); of uremia; in Atlantic City, N. J. Two hundred prominent men of England, France, Japan, and the U. S. were invited to act as honorary pallbearers. Among the messages and cables received by the family was one from King George...