Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign service's 684 married officers, 127 are now wed to foreign-born women, as are 202 of the service's 724 U. S. clerks. Until passage of the Cable Act in 1922, a foreign woman marrying a U. S. citizen automatically acquired his citizenship. Since then, such mates have been forced to seek naturalization. Partly because of their difficulties in fulfilling residence requirements, the wives of only twelve of the 76 foreign service officers who have wed aliens since 1922 have become U. S. citizens...
...suffered simply from a cold. Next a Manhattan doctor decided that Lucio had pneumonia, a disease caused by a definite germ. When the twins went to York Hospital, a small private institution, the Press at first treated the case as a funny publicity stunt developed to promote the vaudeville act of the twins and their wives. Lucio's pneumonia turned out to be rheumatic fever, a virus-caused disease, which attacked his heart, killed him fortnight ago and necessitated the severance of the thick isthmus of flesh & bowel which bound his dead body to hale & hearty Simplicio (TIME...
...never goes to bed before 3 a. m., sleeps with a black blindfold, considers it fun to open charge accounts. She writes personal letters on a typewriter, has had lunch twice with George Bernard Shaw, is of airplanes, taxis, trains, subways, refused to act with animals on the stage since a bulldog bit her in Seventeen...
...Commerce Daniel C. Roper.* Last week the sub-committee submitted a report to Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Monroe Johnson, suggesting: along with many a lesser recommendation, 1) that the U. S. build one large airship for Naval use, two for transatlantic passenger service; 2) that the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 be made applicable to airships; 3) that the Los Angeles be restored to flying status as a Navy training ship; 4) that a medium-sized dirigible be built or bought for the Navy as a training ship to replace the Los Angeles. The Merchant Marine Act created...
...Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission by the name sent in to him by a caller-President Sydney Richard Inch of Electric Bond & Share, biggest power holding company in the U. S. and defendant in the SEC's test suit on the Public Utility Act...