Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adopted, the other, Mary, whose birth in 1950 cost Producer Jed Harris two weeks' pay for the rest of the cast of Coquette when Mother MacArthur's confinement closed the show. Unsuccessful defense by Mr. Harris: that Mary's birth was "an act of God." † Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fortnight "adopted" a Spanish Civil War orphan, Lorenzo Murias, 12, through an organization called the Foster Parents Plan for Children in Spain, by which refugee children are kept in France at a cost to U. S. foster parents of $9 per month...
...Heard (in committee) New York's Senator Wagner defend his Labor Relations Act against revisionist criticism (TIME, April 10). Author Wagner would concede only that employers as well as employers should be allowed to petition for elections when competing unions impede work by fighting...
...wanted the Neutrality Act revised to let the U. S. sell war supplies to France and England. (Three years ago pollees favored embargoes on war material...
...read yet another opinion of No. 1 significance. Three years ago it fell to him to knock out the New Deal's first AAA, partly on the ground that the U. S. Government cannot constitutionally control the production of farms. Ruling last week on the 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act, Owen Roberts held for a majority of six that its provisions authorizing Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to limit the amount of tobacco which any grower may sell do not limit production itself, therefore are constitutional. Also affected: cotton, corn, wheat, rice...
Fifty years ago the London County Council, created by the Local Government Act of 1888, set about tidying up London. This spring a considerably more livable London is celebrating the L. C. C.'s jubilee with all manner of polite and showy functions, not the least of which will be a firemen's parade in June for the Duke and Duchess of Kent. To add its voice to the general huzza, the Gas Light and Coke Co. this month released in London a 20-minute documentary film called The Londoners, sketching London life from Dickens...