Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Avery plastered President Roosevelt with plenty of blame for the new amendments to the Housing Act, however. Predicting that the easy credit it provides to would-be builders will not produce any housing boom, Chairman Avery dubbed the Administration's approach "superficial" in regarding building as a distinct industry. Said he, "Easy credit will not be an inducement to build homes which when built will not be worth what they cost." According to Sewell Avery, building represents a wide cross section of all U. S. industry and therefore will not revive until business as a whole regains confidence...
...Houston, Tex., Eastern Air is the fourth biggest U. S. airline and the only major domestic one to make a sizable profit in 1937-$270,000 before income tax deductions. This makes it a choice business property, but North American Aviation found possession embarrassing because the Air Mail Act of 1934 forbids one company both to have airmail contracts and to manufacture airplanes. North American is the only U. S. concern to have gotten away with this since the act passed (by building military planes exclusively) and the Government has been scowling at the situation. Since North American...
...Sales Manager W. S. Shiffer of Reading Iron Co. would say was: "It is an entirely personal matter." But friends disclosed that Reading is on the verge of liquidation. A 102-year-old subsidiary of gigantic Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., which is being reorganized under the Bankruptcy Act, Reading Iron employs 1,700 men, has sales of $4,000,000 a year. But foot-scrapers, ornamental fretwork and wrought iron pipe are out of fashion and Reading has lost $4,000.000 since 1929. Last week Vice President M. P. McDermott said he would be very glad...
Four thousand youths paraded from the White House to Capitol Hill, many of them dressed in costumes ranging from Snow White to Benjamin Franklin. They gathered to show their approval of the American Youth Act, providing for the enlargement of educational facilities...
...were put on parade, whole regiments of West Point cadets marched and countermarched, millions of peasants danced in the streets, and out of it all came "Rosalie," perhaps the most repulsive musical mouse to escape from Hollywood in some time. Nelson Eddy has a script that calls for romantic acting, but wisely abandons this after the first ten minutes and does nothing from then on but sing "In The Still of the Night" and murmer "I love you" in sort of a weak whisper. Eleanor Powell is well cast, because she is also unable to act. She appears in those...