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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover issued two proclamations last week: 1) he designated May 1 as Child Health day; 2) he created a special board of inquiry under the Railway Labor Act, which averted a strike of 4,000 shop and train employes on the Texas and Pacific...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Telephone | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...Famed in the annals of moral turpitude is the case of Vera, Countess Cathcart. In 1926 a U. S. District Court found that she had admitted committing what is regarded by most law as an act involving moral turpitude, namely adultery. U. S. law further states that a person making such an admission shall be refused admission to the U. S. But Countess Cathcart remained. Reason: The adultery was committed in South Africa, where adultery is no crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Again, Turpitude | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

Public hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover campaign promises. The President wanted tariff revision limited to agricultural products and a few special but unnamed commodities. These G. O. P. committeemen were inclined to give him what he wanted. But outside the locked door, potent U. S. manufacturers ululated demands that all duty rates be promptly and emphatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: Lion- Tiger-Wolf | 4/8/1929 | See Source »

...from the number of the course), a dramatic laboratory in which the students' plays are staged, and their faults practically demonstrated. Plays which are this found worthy of public production may be staged again by the Harvard Dramatic Club, which each year-offers one long play and three one-act plays by student authors. The productions of the 'Workshop' have ranged from pure pantomime to the deepest psychological studies, and a single Dramatic Club bill may include a verse drama and a modern social play. To the student of practical play writing, the value of such an experimental theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boards On The Carpet | 4/5/1929 | See Source »

...scene, Vienna of the 1840's, is tastefully laid out and the soldiers' uniforms and sweeping gowns of the ladies of the ensemble have much to do with making the picture fetching. The lighting effect at the opening of the last act achieves one of the prettiest results the Boston stage has witnessed...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 4/4/1929 | See Source »

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