Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extremely loquacious, scatter-brained person, who, is develops, is meant to be irresistibly attractive in a plump, helpless, middle-aged way. Her charm is unfortunately obscured, with the result that a perfectly honest suitor, a sinister looking Italian who deals in rugs, is mistaken in the first act by most of the audience for a crafty villain with some base design to his wooing. He subsequently appears, however, for no worse end than to supply the impoverished family with some sorely needed cash at the opportune moment. This change of face is not intended, and if only someone...
...independence was indicated again. In Washington Franklin Delano Roosevelt made public an exchange of messages between himself and President Quezon, which showed they were at least completely agreed on the Roosevelt plan to substitute gradual reduction of trade preferences for the abrupt reduction called for by the McDuffie-Tydings Act. The plan will be included in the committee's report, considered by Congress next year...
...Eden, Lord Halifax said: "I look forward to the time when the country will again enjoy the benefit of his service and guidance in its administration! . . . It is no fault of the League of Nations and still less of His Majesty's Government, but . . . if we were to act as some suggest and try to organize a new pattern of collective security against Germany by the present League powers we should be doing the very thing that would be not only on the long view destructive of the hope of winning Germany and other powers back to European cooperation...
...Extended the Commodity Exchange Act to cover dealings in wool and wool tops. When the act was passed in 1936, wool trading was ignored because it seemed of such minor speculative importance. Presently producers began protesting about fluctuations of wool prices and the Senate appointed a Wool Investigating Committee. Matters came to a head last December when wool dealers in Boston demanded the closing of the New York wool futures market, claiming that speculation was rife (TIME, Dec. 6). Finding that wool trading was similar to trading in other commodity futures, the Senate decided to put wool markets also under...
...relieved of its present necessity to certify that roads applying for RFC loans are not in need of reorganization; 3) wage cuts; 4) abolition of the reduced rates on Government traffic over the so-called land-grant lines; 5) amendment of section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act to speed railroad reorganizations, possibly by a special railroad court; 6) the Government to guarantee or underwrite bonds issued in voluntary railroad reorganizations to insure their payment and thus expedite reorganizations...