Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...act of incredible and crass stupidity! An act dictated by personal selfishness and frantic fear! It indicates a total absence of consideration for the well-being of the nation's workers and the requirements of an effective movement of labor...
...effort to outwit the Doctor, the U. S. Government, after a study of his methods, concluded that the various kinds of Schacht marks amounted to a German Government subsidy of goods shipped to the U. S. and retaliated with countervailing duties under the Tariff Act of 1930. For the benefit of U. S. customs inspectors German exporters were required to swear to statements of the amount of any German subsidy they received. Whether President Roosevelt knew it or not, under Nazi law it is high treason to divulge such German economic secrets to a foreigner, much less to swear...
Added General Metaxas: "I will act with the King for the benefit of the People. . . . Any resistance to the Government's task of Hellenic Renaissance will be immediately repressed. . . . My aim is discipline...
...nearby Virginia Beach. Last week, with Stanwurt 4 years old, George von Schilling announced that his sole job from now on was to be his son's manager. Turning up at a music store in Utica, N. Y., where the von Schillings' act was supposed to boost sales, he declared that he and Sousaphonist Stanwurt were bound for Cleveland, hoped for engagements at the Great Lakes Exposition...
Tucked away in the Public Utility Act of 1935, lacking even the dignity of a separate paragraph, was a Congressional command to the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate investment trusts. In the twilight of the 1920's, some $7,000,000,000 worth of investment trusts were floated, according to SEC figures. Their total assets were worth about $2,000,000,000 by the end of last year. It became SEC's job to find out where, how and why the rest disappeared. Last week after over a year of preliminary field work by a staff...