Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Advocating a program of collective security, William R. Castle '00, former under-secretary of State, last night urged the application of the Neutrality Act against China and Japan in a talk on the Far Eastern situation given in the Union...
...will also see the same Nelson Eddy, whose voice thrilled you in "Rose Marie" or "Naughty Marietta", and who still acts like a wooden soldier. But he can be forgiven for his acting, for no one could act the part that he was given. Mr. Eddy, however good his voice may be, is not fitted to be a cadet. And besides this, they have taken Miss MacDonald away from Mr. Eddy and, instead, have given him Eleanor Powell, who shows a complete inability to add anything. Miss Powell dances down a lot of drums in a pair of black stockings...
...companies, operating companies, companies that are not purely one nor the other, and indiscriminate holdings ranging from Manhattan real estate to California prune orchards. After it is simplified, it will keep no less than 108 non-utilities, including 89 waterworks companies which are not defined as utilities by the act. But it will have only three operating and holding utility subsidiaries-West Penn Power Co., Monongahela West Penn Public Service Co. and Potomac Edison Co. To provide cash for the untangling, it plans to issue about $50,000,000 in new securities...
...Star Over China contains a brief, complicated but convincing account of the Sian Mutiny. Last week a detailed study of this affair was published by Snow's sub-correspondent James Bertram (FIRST ACT IN CHINA, Viking, $3) which gives a sympathetic portrait of The Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang. captor of Chiang Kaishek...
Dean Landis has in recent years been prominent in activities connected with government control of business. While a member of the Federal Trade Commission in 1933, he helped draft the Securities Act. In the next year he was appointed to the Securities Exchange Commission, and became its chairman in 1935. He held this post until his recent return to Harvard...