Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exhibition's managers have been beset with protests since the fair was planned. Built in the midst of a Glasgow local option "dry" area, it took a special act of Parliament to insure thirsty Scots of a "wee deoch an' doris" on the grounds. Strait-laced Scots, who are now righteously demanding that the grounds be closed on Sundays, last week objected to three classic statues of nude women. The canny Scottish exhibitors, not wishing to spoil the commercial attraction of the statues, temporarily solved the problem- they "clothed" the nudes by pasting pieces of paper...
...hard Tory Winston Churchill, who objected to withdrawal of British forces from the three Irish treaty ports of Cobh (Queenstown), Lough S willy and Bere Haven, who loudly wondered if Prime Minister de Valera was really a friend of England. But Negotiator Chamberlain called his Anglo-Irish bill an "act of faith," admitted he had granted generous terms to Eire to gain her friendship. In Eire it was announced that Neville Chamberlain will spend a fishing holiday this summer in Galway-the first visit of a British Prime Minister to Ireland since...
...Fulgencio Batista, is his Three-Year Plan, a 20-point New Deal inaugurated last year. Under it he has thus far distributed to indigent farmers well over 300,000 acres of State lands and lands formerly leased to private individuals and companies, constructed some 700 schools where army noncoms act as teachers, restricted the employment of foreigners and imposed price and minimum wage restrictions on the sugar industry. However, the surface of his mass of social, economic-reforms has not been scratched. So extensive are the proposed reforms that cynical oppositionists have dubbed the program "Batista's 300-Year...
...promote it by securing the marriage of His Majesty and Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Juliana of The Netherlands. Neither Leopold nor Juliana saw the matter in this light, but they are on the best of terms. Last week His Majesty accepted the invitation of Her Royal Highness to act as a godfather at the christening of her first child. Princess Beatrix, this week in The Hague...
...McNinch, The 1912 Radio Communication Act antedates the birth of broadcasting. The license plan adopted at that time was a system of registry for the three radio groups then active: the Navy, private companies engaged in ship communications and the small group of early-bird amateurs. Anybody who applied got a license. Its issuance was part of the job of the Secretary of Commerce, a very small part until 1920 when KDKA (Pittsburgh) applied for the first wireless telephone broadcasting station license. The Secretary granted it a wave length of 360 meters, continued issuing other stations licenses on the same...