Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stated that contrary to the general impression, measures for obligatory education were being rushed when the war overtook them. In 1913 an act was passed which within eight years would have completely democratized education for the Russian people. Even before this, the local governments were making progress in education, he said...
...difficult to find reasons for Mr. Whitney's downfall in the light of his integrity and personal success. One report says his house violated the Martin Act, which regulates the sale of stocks and bonds; another, that the charges to be preferred against him involve his connection with a liquor concern, in which he held 12,000 shares. Obviously, it is unfair to judge his business or himself until he has had a chance to speak at the March 17 hearing. But what happens to Mr. Whitney and his firm will not be remembered so much as what their failure...
Surprised and pleased last week was SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas by a sudden rush of utility holding companies to register with the commission. Though the constitutionality of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act is still undecided by the Supreme Court, fortnight ago the $570,000,000 United Light & Power Co. voluntarily registered under the act. Last week two more utility holding companies knocked at SEC's door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets...
...minute," and to observe that conservative custom which scorns action until there is cause. Certainly necessity demands that precautions be taken in areas suited for floods, that reservoirs for impounding water be constructed in such weak spots as the Ohio Valley, where last winter was staged the second act of the watery drama...
Optimism that Germany will not act precipitately and seize Austria because it lacks sufficient popular support at home was the keynote of Marx's address. He feels that the German people has never wanted to use aggression in dealing with the problem of the German minority in Austria...