Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crop Control. The second Agricultural Adjustment Act, on the President's calendar for the special session but not passed until February, gave the Secretary of Agriculture full power to control crop marketing by voluntary co-operation if possible, by compulsion if necessary (TIME...
...Equalize the Wagner Labor Act...
...Political Commentator "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) to the Chicago Daily News. To the same newsorgan, London Correspondent William H. Stoneman wrote: "The British Government wants Rebel Generalissimo Franco to win the Spanish War and to win it in a hurry." British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain refused last week to act to protect frequently bombed and sunk British ships in Leftist ports...
Nozze di Figaro (Wed. 2:30 p.m.. MBS). Act II of Mozart's masterpiece by short wave from England's No. 1 country-house music festival at Glyndebourne...
...through the heroically talky role of Sir Arthur Chavender. No drunken skipper, but a tired, shilly-shallying Prime Minister, Sir Arthur is discovered, when On the Rocks begins, fiddling aimlessly about the interior of No. 10 Downing Street while an angry mob howls in the streets outside. Halfway through Act I, he receives a visit from a mysterious Lady in Grey (Estelle Winwood) who whisks him away to a sanatorium on the ground that his ineffectiveness is caused not by too much but by too little intellectual exercise...