Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...letter to Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate's Finance Committee, the President recommended amending the Social Security Act to provide standard payments for 1,100,000 additional prospective beneficiaries, including 175,000 national & certain other bank employes, 180,000 seamen, and 800,000 persons, now 60 or more who, by the existing statute, would get a small lump sum payment instead of annuities...
...although the U. S. rejected the League of Nations, it successively sponsored limitation of naval armaments, the Kellogg Pact renouncing war, and finally this year's pacifistic Neutrality Act. As the rest of the world appeared progressively to forget the horrors of war, the U. S. appeared progressively to forget all horrors save those of being itself involved in war. In this mood the U. S. may run the risk of taking an action so detrimental to its own interests as to produce later an equally strong reaction in the opposite direction, but it is in a salutary mood...
Notes. When news of the Panay sinking reached Washington fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt's first official act was to initial a curt memorandum asking Secretary of State Cordell S. Hull to tell the Japanese Ambassador "that the President is deeply shocked and concerned by the news of indiscriminate bombing of American and other non-Chinese vessels on the Yangtze and that he requests that the Emperor be so advised...
...migrating from Europe to reside in America become some-what modified and in one or two generations, differ from their European, cousins in much greater ways than occur among those members residing in the same country. These differences are probably due to modified reactions of the endocrine glands which act to adapt our internal environments to the changed external conditions of climate and food. Such mechanisms are our means of adaptation in maintaining a normally balanced internal chemistry. Different climatic, meteorological, light and other effects on one's own personal well being and activities may often be noticed...
...feather-skirted heroine (see above), I'll Take Romance follows a familiar cinema routine, its guiding milestones clearly visible from the outset. All along the dusty way are conveniently spaced settings for the Drinking Song from La Traviata, the duet from Madame Butterfly, the finale to the third act of Martha, the Gavotte from Manon and the Old Red Rooster arietta from She'll Be Comin' 'round the Mountain. The title song is a sweet-and-dreamy for the radio groundlings...