Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other forbidden cargoes, to ports of belligerents. Other agencies prepared for possible emergencies, each in its own domain. SEC, fearful of a stockmarket crisis, conferred with officers of the New York Stock Exchange. The Departments of Agriculture and Commerce, fearful of the effects of war and the Neutrality Act on crops and prices,* studied 1914 precedents and the current state of crops and industry...
Should declared instead of undeclared war come to Europe, Washington opinion last week rated 50-50 the chance of President Roosevelt's calling a special session of Congress to repeal or amend the Neutrality Act, which expires anyway next May 1. If he should call Congress, he would probably be embarrassed by revival of the movement for a Constitutional Amendment to require that the nation be polled before entering a foreign war. To oppose such a movement would argue-as loud Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. was already shouting last week-that the Roosevelt Administration is war-minded...
...Under the Neutrality Act, the President has wide discretion in embargoing commodities of secondary but basic importance in war (examples: cotton, shoes...
...offering English ideas of U. S. gangsters in an English version of U. S. slang. The scene is a London hospital where a mobster comes with a bullet in his chest and compels an unwilling surgeon to take it out by first kidnapping the surgeon's little boy. Act I is mostly comedy, which consists of stating a few jokes and then elaborately developing them, like themes in music. Acts II and III are melodrama-absurd, but fairly exciting...
...cinematic purposes, newsreel photography has, over other equally exciting pursuits, the advantage of dovetailing with its medium. Producer Weingarten has utilized this to the best advantage. Too Hot to Handle exhibits its hero (Clark Gable) in the act of shooting a film of Alma Harding (Myrna Loy) as she arrives in China with a plane full of cholera serum. His reel is sensational because, in making it, Mr. Gable forces Miss Loy to wreck her plane. (In one of the takes for this scene, Miss Loy was trapped in the burning plane's cabin, had to be rescued...