Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When TIME'S correspondent interviewed Senator Reynolds for the express purpose of confirming the story that he smokes Camels, the Senator's first act was to produce a handful of Camels (which he carried loose in his pocket), give one to the correspondent, light one himself. TIME is glad to record Senator Reynolds' assurance that he majors in Luckies...
...under a new Constitution (TIME, Jan. 11 et ante} to edge up to the head of India's table for the first time since the Empire was set up. Among ways of wrecking this Constitution would be for the ruling Indian potentates to refuse to sign the Act of Accession intended to bring their States into the new All-India Federation. Last year the Maharaja of Patiala, longtime chairman of the Chamber of Princes, re-signed rather than continue his role of being more or less Britain's whip over his fellow Princes. In the secrecy...
...Hayashi lost no time in revealing the mailed fist. He insisted that civilian ministers resign their party affiliations before entering his Cabinet, thus ousting completely from the conduct of Japanese affairs the Empire's two great political parties, the Minseito (majority) and Seiyukal (minority). His second high-handed act was to get the Emperor to suspend the Diet throughout last fortnight...
...Winant proceeded to mold his case with the statement, "in this spirit, then, we might well view the contribution of the Social Security Act of 1935 to the national security." Having treated the various fields of his board, such as, public assistance to people in need, unemployment compensation, and old age benefits, and proved their necessity as well as their justification, he reverted to the spirit of the Act. "It is the greatest piece of social welfare legislation which this nation has adopted in many a generation. As time goes on, we shall increasingly realize the profound importance of this...
...this is not to say that the Act as it stands is perfect, or that it is not to be changed", the administrator was swift to proclaim. But the most vital of all of the Chairman's avowals was his far-sighted prediction for the future. "It is a part of the intelligence to expect that we shall learn how to improve social security constantly, and that through the years the system will undergo definite and steady evolution...