Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Act Plays...
This year's performance, composed of two one-act plays, Maurey's "Asile de Nuit" and Courteline's "le Commissaire est bon enfant," will be presented in Brattle Hall on the evening of December 11, Manager Howard A. Cook '37 announced yesterday...
...manufacture of at least 700 fighting planes. This decision came just after U. S. aircraft salesmen had left London, disgruntled by the cool assurances of civil servants that Britain was making and would make all fighting aircraft she needed. Under Congress' so-called Espionage Act of June 15, 1917 it may still be a crime punishable by 20 years' imprisonment to export equipment such as fighting planes if there is "reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nation. ..." Amid uncertainty...
...specific act of malfeasance charged was offering to the French public "Baby Bonds" and then, after unloading as many of these as could be sold in France, cheating the bondholders by devaluing the franc and thus reducing the value of both principal and interest. The fact that MM. Blum and Auriol have admitted that while selling the bonds in France, they were carrying on simultaneous devaluationary parleys with U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, was held by the 1,000,000 taxpayers to be conclusive proof of fraud...
...Geneva, where more machinations have disrupted a disarmament conference. A U. S. journalist (Otto Hulett), who has been "selling his soul'' by writing jingoistic trash for a U. S. jingo newspaper tycoon, decides to stop it even if it costs him his job, reads the riot act to Zacharey, loudly swears to spend the rest of his life exposing...