Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Resolution the State Department could make would be to name Italy, Germany and Japan as treaty breakers-which cautious Secretary Cordell Hull, who was last week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals and newspaper bigwigs at the Soviet Embassy earlier in the week, called at the White House before introducing his resolution. First guess was, therefore, that Franklin Roosevelt had inspired...
...Just before the first act someone sings 'Fair Harvard' offstage, which puts everybody in a properly sentimental mood," Mr. Watts observed nastily. The Student smiled indulgently; so steeped in indifference was he that he passed lightly over this affront to his Alma Mater...
...test pilot ends his career alive, he is considered lucky. Test Pilot'?, flying shots are among the best ever staged by cinema. But the picture is less concerned with the mechanics of test flying than it is with how test pilots and those about them live and act...
...make the sale of helium to Germany impossible in this or any other year New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, in the House last week, demanded repeal of the Helium Act of 1937, permitting sales of helium abroad. "Germany," cried Representative Thomas, "is asking for three times as much helium as its new dirigible would require . . . would, in time of war, supply flying power for three large dirigibles ... 100 blimps ... 150 sausage balloons...
...roads might be obliged to negotiate for a pay cut through the mechanism provided by the National Mediation Board, Labor spokesmen cracked back that the unions "would stop at nothing short of a nationwide strike" to maintain their present wage scale. As George Harrison well knows, the Railway Labor Act's detailed procedure of negotiating wages takes months & months. And even President Roosevelt admits the roads cannot wait long for financial aid. Said he fortnight ago in passing along the railroad problem to Congress: "Some immediate legislation is, 'I believe, necessary at this session, in order to prevent...