Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make businessmen subject to punishment if they buy goods produced in plants where the Act is violated without the purchaser's knowledge...
Last week New Jersey's Mary Teresa Norton, chairman of the House Labor Committee, offered Elmer Andrews' amendments to Congress. Doing so, she conceded that the Act as it stands "has tended to create hardship on employers, reduce employment and generally dislocate the flow of business in a particular industry...
...Besteiro remained in Madrid, was arrested, taken to Burgos and was expected to face a military trial early this week. Colonel Casado, chief figure in ousting the civil government of Dr. Juan Negrin from power four weeks ago, escaped to Marseille aboard a British ship. As his last official act he had issued a bogus proclamation to Communist leaders to mobilize for a last-ditch stand. When they reached their headquarters he had them arrested and carted off to jail to await the arrival of the Franco troops...
...craving of these goldfish cultists," explained Chicago's Consulting Psychologist Robert N. McMurray, "really is for public acclaim, that is, exhibitionism. The eater of goldfish takes delight in the repulsiveness of his act...
...Playwright Barry's little fireside mottoes are neatly and trimly framed. Smart, gossipy, wisecracking, full of family jokes about fashionable Philadelphia and other Biddle-dee-dee, the nearest The Philadelphia Story comes to tragedy is the paralytic stroke suffered by the plot at the end of the second act. Though not up to Barry's best trifling, the play provides an entertaining evening, thanks to gay, lively dialogue and Actress Hepburn's amazing aptness for her role...