Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before he left Washington to go fishing off Florida last fortnight, Franklin Roosevelt completed two messages to Congress. In the first, he asked for amendments to the 1934 Housing Act, to stimulate the U. S. building industry by making it easier for prospective homebuilders to finance their houses (TIME, Dec. 6). In the second, he asked Congress for a $112,000,000 reduction in Federal appropriations for road building, as a step toward a balanced budget in 1939. While the President and his party cruised about the Gulf Stream last week, daily messages from a temporary White House...
...plot is thoroughly inane. It has to do with the joys and terrors of a debonair young man who enters unwittingly into bigamy and continues in it because he can't decide how to get out. The first of the two acts sees him oscillating between Paris and London, the one the home of his first wife, whom be thought drowned, the other the home of his second. There is a good deal of horseplay connected with an attempt to keep a man in the know from betraying the here's duplicity, and the show gains little...
...business of the Conference will be conducted in three sessions. The first, tomorrow afternoon, will take up the present Neutrality Act and relate its provisions to the neutrality situation during the years 1914-1917. On Friday morning, the psychological and economic aspects of the question will be dealt with...
...first time a member of a trio ever dressed up in woman's clothes for an act, it may have been funny. One of the Ritz Brothers does just this in their latest film; it is neither clever nor side-splitting...
Earlier in the afternoon, Payson S. Wild, assistant professor of Government, described the Act as "Swiss-cheese neutrality" in a broadcast to the nation over the Columbia Broadcasting System. Remarking that the American people cannot be put in "hermetically-sealed cans" he declared that it is "self-interest to prepare in advance to prevent the storm...