Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will neither advocate nor participate in any coercion or any threats of bodily harm or damage to any employe, the property of any employe or the company or in any violence or unlawful act to enforce the settlement of any differences that may arise between this company and me or my fellow workmen...
...agree not to commit sabotage on the property of the company, its equipment, airplanes and airplane parts and will report to the company any act of sabotage or any known threat of sabotage...
...death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
This meant that Russia had balked completely at adopting the plan the others were ready to adopt, and dispatches excitedly rumored that at this point Britain, France, Germany and Italy would act in the spirit of their Four-Power Pact signed in 1933 and settle the question without Russia. Just arrived in London from Rome, where he had conferred at length with Premier Mussolini, was the German Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop, chief confidant of the Führer on foreign affairs. He surprised the Nonintervention Committee by declaring that Germany demanded it act in unanimity-that is, fail to act...
...Meanwhile, the widely advertised Aragon-Teruel offensive along the northeastern battle line from the French frontier to a point a little north of Valencia, over which both Rightists and Leftists were violently shadow-boxing fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 1), was postponed for at least ten days because of an act of God. Unexpected rains in the high Pyrenees flooded the Gállego and Ebro Rivers 20 ft. above normal, flooded trenches on both sides for several miles to their rear, turned the whole district southeast of Saragossa into a temporary lake. Inconclusive fighting continued in the Madrid suburbs...