Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amendment to the Federal Warehousing Act so that farmers can store excess crops on their farms, get Federal Warehouse receipts and borrow on them at the bank...
...Finance Minister was frank to say, the French Cabinet had still to go before the French Parliament and obtain its consent for the measures about to be taken. There was in Paris none of that high-pressure invoking of a dormant "Trading-with-the-Enemy" Act by which smiling President Roosevelt suddenly authorized his dallying with gold before it could be ratified by Congress (TIME, March 13, 1933). Instead M. Auriol spoke of the Blum Cabinet's intention to safeguard War veterans on pensions and people living off their savings invested in small quantities of French bonds, by introducing...
...behind the Royal greys. The 40 stable grooms and coachmen who accompanied the Monarch in previous years to Balmoral were left in London last week and the custom of inviting a Cabinet minister to reside in attendance upon the King in Scotland was also discontinued. Constitutionally the King can act only upon the advice and with the countersignature of a member of the Cabinet...
...Ramona (see above) the villains are land-grabbers. This time they are silk-breeched Colonial Virginians who legislate an act appropriating the Kentucky land which the great Boone appropriated from the Indians. With 40 families at his buck skin back, Boone treks over the Cumberlands, founds the village of Boonesborough. The land is as fertile as the Red skins are hostile. Stout Boone protects the settlers in many a brush with Indians, kills more than one warrior, narrowly misses death a dozen times, is once captured by Shawnees, escaping in time to render great service to beleaguered Boonesborough. This...
...nourished and better developed than their predecessors, 87% of them being in "good-to-excellent physical shape." Its New England members, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, are the tallest group of human beings in the world, 178.03 centimeters (circa 5 ft. 10 in.). First official act of the Class of 1940 as it gathered in its new colleges was to hear addresses of welcome and counsel from its new presidents. Newsworthy presidential soundoffs...