Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question of applying the Neutrality Act remains in status quo, the Government policy remaining on a twenty-four-hour basis...
Ever since the war in China started six weeks ago, Franklin Roosevelt has been embarrassed by the fact that, until war was declared, he could scarcely apply the Neutrality Act without making a bad situation worse. Last week's embargo appeared to bear the same relation to an official application of the Neutrality Act that the Sino-Japanese conflict bears to a declared...
Finally Jesuit LeBuffe paid his respects to novenas-the Catholic act of faith which the devout spend nine days performing, usually saying numerous prayers in honor of a saint or a feast day. Said he: "Now I carry a medal of the Little Flower with me and pray to her daily, but I am not sure I'd die for a novena to the Little Flower. There is too much Novena-itis, too many spiritual lollypops in presentday religion. I favor novenas, of course, but I do not believe that God is ultimately going to save us by numbers...
Since the bankruptcy act was extended to railroads four years ago, no less than 32 Class I roads operating a third of U. S. trackage have taken advantage of its sanctuary. But no single major railroad reorganization has been completed. This is partly because roads have felt they should delay reorganization until earnings improved, partly because warring groups of security holders have been unable to agree on terms. Lately the situation has become more complicated as railroad earnings, after sharp improvements, have fallen off because of rapid rises in operating costs...
...word itself is poor; it gives the wrong connotation. For a Harvard man's indifference is not mere disregard of people, studies, football games--although there are cynics in every society, but a thoughtful desire to let the business of others alone, to let each individual dress and act as he pleases. Communists and New Dealers alike are safe in Harvard; so are spiritualists and hi-li fiends...