Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Announcers of this Davies act were Walker-Gordon Laboratories Co., Inc., purveyors of milk, at Plainsboro, N. J. The cream, it was announced, will be preserved by the quick-freezing Birdseye process (named for its inventor in 1925, Clarence Birdseye) which keeps food fresh for two years. Owner of the Birdseye process is General Foods Corp., of which Mrs. Davies, daughter of Cereal Tycoon Charles William Post, is a director and the largest single stockholder...
Because the Federal Housing Administration is a partial guarantor of modernization loans made by banks under Title I of the National Housing Act, Mike Pecoraro's methods came under Federal scrutiny. His methods were simple. A short, smartly-dressed man with a police record as a forger and thief, Mike would walk into a branch of big National City or Manufacturers Trust, submit an FHA loan application signed by Otto Corneau (or one of 18 other names) with his right hand and the wife's name penned with his left. Then he returned to a rented apartment, waited...
...Long famed as a Red-baiter, Congressman Fish has stepped out since Nov. 3 as a would-be liberalizer of the GOP. Last week his target was National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, who had called the Committee's first post election meeting to act on his offer to resign...
...toothed Representative from New York, was a fine fellow, but as a representative of the "old. reactionary elements" he must be dropped. "If word goes out today that the Republican Party has learned no lesson," warned he, "it may be too late and our Party perishes before we can act to liberalize it in Congress. . . . Hamilton's fight on the Social Security Act drove millions out of the Party in the big industrial cities...
...Crown wrote with his own hand. The Ambassador consulted his Counselor and was told of the doctrine that "His Majesty's Government do not wish to be asked" such favors. They could be asked, but the Embassy must not risk a snub, and consequently could not act In these circumstances the U. S. Ambassador wrote back to the British Foreign Secretary to tell him that his British Foreign Office did not wish that Americans be asked to dinner at Buckingham Palace. As the Ambassador and the Minister were friends, they had a good laugh the next time they...