Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Susan, a scatterbrained convert bubbling over with the Message, begins in the first act to meddle with the complex and questionable lives of her ultimately succeeding in running three of them. Convinced, after someone has made a joking confession, that she has the knack of conversion, Susan also sets about to rescue her estranged husband (Paul McGrath) from drink and to win the love of her daughter (Nancy Coleman,) The trio, without the aid of God, finally work out their problems and unite around a happy hearth. For the plausibility of this ending Miss Coleman, replacing, Nancy Kelly...
Touched with hypochondria, Mr. Cullen refers to bothersome unfinished business as a "stone in my belly." A stone in Mr. Cullen's belly since he became International's head man has been the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, requiring geographical integration of utility pyramids. Like many another utility magnate, Mr. Cullen tried to evade this "death sentence" without avail. SEC remained adamant and the stone in Mr. Cullen's belly still hurt. Last week...
...sold nearly half his holdings for a mere $28,000,000. His remaining 51% control of Central States, through a bizarre series of other holding companies, gave him a net interest of 18.3% in North American. This is the sort of setup the Public Utility Holding Company ("death sentence") Act of 1935 was specifically designed to alter. Shrewd Harrison Williams was the first of the major utility tycoons to submit to its painful yoke, and North American registered with SEC in February 1937. By last fall when SEC finally forced the rest of the industry into line, Mr. Williams...
Resolved: That the Neutrality Act should be repealed...
Other speakers included Thomas H. Eliot '28 regional administrator of the wage and hours act; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English, representing the Cambridge Union of University Teachers; Zechariah Chafee, of the Law School; William N. Chambers '39, representing the Student Union; and C. Fayette Taylor, professor at Tech...