Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become effective, a coincidence by which Congressman Mansfield professed to be greatly surprised. Last week, Congressman Mansfield surprised himself even more thoroughly by another coincidence of exactly the same kind. This time, the bill to whose rescue he raced on his wheel chair was the Fair Labor Standards Act, to provide for minimum wages and maximum hours in U. S. industry, item No. 2 on the President's program for the current extra session...
...white ties, others in frayed collars, stridulous debutantes with glassy-eyed escorts, and a great dun horde which prides itself on loving music more than show but nonetheless selects the first night of the opera to hear it. The restless din of Society nearly swamped moments of the final act. It was too much for one outraged Teuton who drooped among the lower classes behind the standees' rail. "Quiet please!" he wailed over the surging strains of Artur Bodanzky's orchestra and the equally surging conversational hum. "Der iss an opera going on. It iss a good opera...
Even Miss Claire's fashionable audience gave up giggling during the second act and sat back to chat in peace. Broadway connoisseurs were waiting for the big actress scene that would explain why she had chosen the play. The scene never came...
...thereupon pitched in and helped elect as President its guest of honor at the founding banquet in Cincinnati-William McKinley. Through the subsequent decades N. A. M. worked for the Parcel Post Act, the Federal Reserve Act, the Food & Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation legislation and the Panama Canal. It has always stood for a bigger & better merchant marine, and probably its most notable achievement was in promotion of foreign trade in the days before the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. At one time it maintained its own commercial attaches in important foreign business centres, and its voluminous files...
...part Business is to make an earnest effort to put its own house in order and give serious thought to long-range economic planning. From Labor it wants union financial statements, voluntary cessation of political contributions, responsibility for propeny damage, and co-operation in amending the Wagner Act. Specifically Business is opposed to such legislation...