Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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November 7 is the actual Tercentenary Day, according to the members of the Council. On October 28, 1636 the General Court voted the money for the University. To ascertain the date of this act according to the reformed Gregorian Calendar, it is necessary to add ten days...
...Orestes is a curly moppet, his daughter Electra (Joanna Roos) a grown girl. His wife has taken Aegisthus as her lover, is quick with his child. Clytemnestra hacks Agamemnon to death in his bath; Electra recovers his body from a dunghill and buries it. In the last act Orestes returns from exile to slake Electra's brooding hatred by killing his mother, a pasty-faced harridan with a red wig over her grey hair. When the play ends the Furies are already making Orestes swish his sword at phantoms...
...Smithsonian Institution was created by Act of Congress in 1846. Last August it observed its goth birthday, received congratulations from its presiding officer ex officio, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Last week its gaunt, assiduous Secretary Charles Greeley Abbot published his annual report for fiscal 1935, which furnished a good picture of the multitudinous doings in one year of the ramified organization whose headquarters are in an old red sandstone castle on a broad lawn off Constitution Avenue...
From the fight put up by the New York Stock Exchange against Federal regulation, from the war waged by U. S. power-men against the Public Utility Act, another group of U. S. businessmen who are about to receive Congressional attention were able to pick up many a pointer on how -or how not-to act when their turn came to go to Washington. That group was the nation's investment trust managers, whom the Securities & Exchange Commission is currently investigating as a preliminary to making legislative recommendations to Congress (TIME, Oct. 5, et ante). They have fallen over...
...With the assistance of Morgan Stanley & Co., 46 other banking houses and some 800 investment dealers throughout the land, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. last week sold $150,000,000 of 3¼% debentures, biggest single issue floated by any U. S. corporation under the Securities Act of 1933. Another $25,000,000 was sold to A. T. & T.'s pension trust fund. Though some of A. T. & T.'s operating subsidiaries have taken advantage of prevailing low money rates to refund their bonds, this was the parent company's first move to shave interest charges...