Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the National Housing Act of 1934, an individual could borrow up to $2,000 from a bank-with 20% of the principal guaranteed by the Government -to improve, repair or modernize his house. He could borrow up to $16,000 from a bank to build a new house-at 5% (in some cases 6%) interest, with the total mortgage guaranteed by the Government for a premium of at least .5% when the principal did not exceed 80% of the estimated value of the property. And ''V nited dividend corporations could get insurance on mortgages...
...Ellis Island at the French Line's expense, Mme Magdeleine La Ferrière ("Magda de Fontages") was ordered deported to France by U. S. District Court Judge Samuel Mandelbaum, who called her Paris coup de pistolet at Count Charles Pineton de Chambrun (TIME, Nov. 22) "an act of baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt...
...because it posed the possibility of some great future strike that might spread pestilence as did exposed, decaying bodies in the Middle Ages-that the Mayor directed his labor adviser, Nathan Frankel, to notify the cemetery management and the strikers that unless they promptly settled the dispute, he would act. Then he instructed Health Commissioner John L. Rice to be prepared to draft laborers from the Department of Water Supply, Gas & Electricity as gravediggers...
Serenade begins when tough, embittered John Howard Sharp, once an opera star, now a singer in tenth-rate Mexico City night clubs, gets involved in an argument with a bullfighter over a prostitute, takes her home, is invited to act as bookkeeper and chauffeur for a disreputable hotel in the steamy coast town of Acapulco. As he is driving to Acapulco with the owlish, observant Juana, a storm drives them into one of Mexico's closed churches, where Howard builds a fire, cooks meals, despite Juana's fears of sacrilege. While the candles blow out, thunder rolls...
Almost unanimous condemnation of the Neutrality Act came from the undergraduates, faculty, and guests attending the Guardian Foreign Policy Conference in Winthrop House, as it drew to a close Saturday...