Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rushed south by plane following its passage, the new Neutrality Act (see p. 16) was ferried out to the Potomac where the President signed it a few hours before the old Neutrality Act expired. He promptly issued a new proclamation declaring Spain at war and forbidding export of arms to Rebels or 'Loyalists...
...Passed (231 to 113) a bill which would repeal the clause of the Revenue Act of 1936 under which salaries of officers & employes of corporations in excess of $15,000 per annum were made public by the Treasury Department, sent it to the Senate...
...when they sent out the first truckload of their products, the strikers tossed more rocks to stop it. Returning tear-gas bombs, police charged into battle. The scuffle stopped when the truck retreated into the plant. The strikers jeered the sheriff when he appeared to read the Riot Act. For safety's sake, the non-union workers decided to stay inside...
...mentioned, however, and Mr. Barnard's naively perplexed air was exactly right for Alan, the hero. Among the women, Misses Plimpton, Eastell, and Williams were particularly good. In many ways, however, Mr. Byrne was the sensation of the evening as a magnificently Rooseveltian dictator. His speech in the second act seems to be already in a way to make history; by all means go to see "The Dog" , if only to hear him say: "My friends...
Arguing that the Neutrality Act passed by Congress last Friday is not sufficient to keep the United States out of a possible world conflict, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, spoke on "American Neutrality" last night over station WAAB, in the series of Wednesday evening broadcasts sponsored by the Harvard "Guardian", undergraduate magazine of the social sciences...