Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Debate on the "reform" proposals was very largely attended last week, became the leading political topic, roused Labor orators throughout Britain to violent protest. There seemed little chance, however, that the projected Reform Act can be drawn up, much less presented to Parliament, before next year...
Smiddy Reports. "The inferior types of Irish bulls are being rapidly eliminated under the Livestock Breeding Act." Thus, at Chicago last week spoke Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister from the Irish Free State...
...dynamic, told convincingly that new Ireland is rushing forward much in the manner of new Italy. "Forty-nine new factories have been created within 24 months. . . . Fourteen thousand houses have been built or are building, and $7,500,000 has been expended to better housing conditions ... By the Land Act of 1923 very many farmers were enabled to purchase the land they had been working under favorable terms. Thus the last vestige of landlordism has been removed...
...than she sells to that nation; and sells $345,000,000 more to Great Britain than she buys from the Mother Country. 4) A conspicuous instance of Canadian talent for steadygoing statesmanship has been the Dominion's handling of the liquor problem. The British North America Act* was so drawn that the Canadian Federal authority has control over liquor manufacture and export, the provincial authorities over sale. Thus a majority of Canadians may not decree that an individual province shall be either Dry or Wet. At one time or another each of the nine Canadian provinces have gone...
Gold Plaques. Dramatic Critic Frank Vreeland of the New York Telegram, onetime (1924) dramatic critic of TIME the weekly newsmagazine, ascended the stage of the Guild Theatre after the first act of the Monday performance of The Second Man, made a speech, presented two prizes. They were gold plaques awarded by the Morning Telegraph (New York) to the actor and actress who, in the opinions of Manhattan daily newspaper critics, gave the best performances of the year. The winners: Miss Pauline Lord for her work in Sandalwood, Mariners; Alfred Lunt, for his work in Juarez and Maximilian, Ned McCobb...