Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fixed maximum rates to be charged by the Fred 0. Morgan Sheep Commission Co., of Kansas City. Mo. Attorney for Fred O. Morgan was persuasive Frederick Hill Wood of the potent Manhattan firm of Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, who argued down NRA and the first Guffey Coal Control Act. Arguing for Fred 0. Morgan, Mr. Wood contended that the Secretary had issued his order without a complete knowledge of the facts gathered by subordinates, had erred in denying the company a chance to view and contest the order before it was finally issued. Last week six Justices (Justice Black...
...Thus the wedding had to have the official Mussolini O.K., and Il Duce showed that he strongly approved this latest Italian-Hungarian-Albanian tie-up by having his son-in-law. Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, interrupt his Franco-Italian talks in Rome to bustle across to Tirana to act as Zog's witness...
Compromise. The current Revenue Act imposes: 1) surtaxes up to 27% on undistributed profits; 2) taxes up to 79% on all capital gains made from the sale of assets held for less than one year, on 30% of capital gains made from the sale of assets held for ten years. The Revenue Bill passed by the House last March imposed: 1) 16% levies on all corporation profits, a 4% surtax on profits undistributed in dividends; 2) levies on capital gains by taxing all of such gains only when made by the sale of assets held less than 13 months...
...eight years ending last December, burst out last week in Manhattan. Mr. Davila accused the present Rumanian Premier, the Orthodox Patriarch Miron Cristea, of being at heart just as anti-Semitic as the squelched Iron Guard, with the only difference that he consents to act as puppet for Carol II. The National Peasant Party, Mr. Davila declared, is "backed by the overwhelming majority of the people against the Court camarilla and the King's personal dictatorship...
...foster mother had been injected with a crude extract from pituitary glands. In 1932 Dr. Oscar Riddle and his associates at the Carnegie Institution's station for experimental evolution on Long Island obtained in almost pure form the same pituitary substance which had made Ehrhardt's monkey act like a mother. Because it was a stimulant of milk secretion this substance was called prolactin...