Word: act
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...length the House voted, and the President's men won, 226 to 160. The conference report then arrived in the Senate for final approval. It had to lie untouched for hours while its foes used up time debating the Relief act, which also had to be finished that day. It was dinner time before Senator Wagner, in charge of the money bill, could bring...
Significance. The practical issue between the President and Congress last week was out of all proportion to the amount of heat engendered. Under the Gold Reserve Act of 1934, with the approval of the President, the Secretary of the Treasury may purchase gold "in any amounts at home or abroad with any direct obligations, coin or currency of the U. S." The price of gold for all practical purposes determines the exchange value of the dollar. If the Secretary should choose to pay $40 an oz. for gold instead of $35 he would in effect devalue the dollar...
...weed with a young Indian hostage called Little Chief (Martin Good Rider), passing back & forth a small but sure-enough pipe of peace. Whatever the effect of this may be on the behavior of Shirley's moppet public, its effect on Shirley is to make her act sick. The effect on stolid, 13-year-old Martin Good Rider is imperceptible. A Blackfoot Indian lad from Montana, he was picked for the role because he photographed well in the New York Daily News as a returning communicant from the New Orleans Eucharistic Congress last year. Martin is a veteran votary...
...grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start of localized function-of specific organs with different jobs to do-was believed to occur later in embryonic development...
From Vienna (produced by the Refugee Artists Group). One by one, after Anschluss, the members of a young Viennese theatre group called the Wiener kleinkunstbühne found their way to the U. S. as refugees. By last winter they were a unit again, eager to act. Few knew any English, but they plugged away at the language. They had no resources, but they found such sponsors as Mr. and Mrs. George S. Kaufman, Irving Berlin, Edna Ferber, Max Gordon, Sam H. Harris. Last week they presented their first U. S. revue...