Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gasque Bills which the Administration is determined not to swallow* are two. The first would liberalize the interpretation of disability to include every soldier "unable to do manual labor," would up non-service-connected pensions from $30 to the $40 they were before the Economy Act of 1933. Cost estimate: $5,000,000 the first year. The "big" Gasque Bill carries out the announced aims of American Legion Commander Daniel J. Doherty: pensions for all veterans' widows, regardless of whether their husbands ever fought anything but mosquitoes. Estimated annual cost...
...Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
...Massachusetts Legislature to pass a law allowing savings banks to issue life insurance. That was in 1907. Despite the tight-lipped opposition of all the old-line insurance companies, the plan was a thoroughpaced success. There are now 24 Massachusetts savings banks with life insurance departments, 117 more that act as agents. Massachusetts citizens can insure their lives for anything between $100 and $24,000. At the end of 1937 some 160,000 Massachusetts citizens or onetime Massachusetts citizens had policies totaling $140,000,000. The savings banks do 5% of Massachusetts' total life insurance business...
...Board hearing which would prove annoying even though it revealed a group of minor employees out of hand and not an anti-Federation cabal in University Hall. Better control of the janitors would enable the University to make its oft-heralded claim of neutrality undoubted fact. The University should act promptly...
Today the second step has been made in the act of complying with the terms of the Nieman bequest, and in taking it Harvard seems to have judged carefully and moved wisely. Not only are the qualifications of the nine Fellows in general high, but the fairly representative selection from various sections is almost comparable to the worthy theory of countrywide distribution behind the National Scholarships. Establishment of the Advisory Committee, to encourage and assist the Fellows in their study programs, will provide the needful administrative element; planning of discussions with leading journalists will supplement their work nicely. Several points...