Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most frequent criticism of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, under which Cordell Hull has patiently woven a network of reciprocal trade treaties with 16 foreign countries, is that tariff concessions granted to any signatory country are automatically extended to 70-odd non-signatory countries with which the U. S. has "most-favored-nation" agreements. From the standpoint of Free Trader Hull, this is the strongest point of his policy since generalizing concessions tends to increase the volume of world trade. But it has given many a Hull critic an opportunity to argue that with U. S. tariff favors...
...House until despite a serious illness he was made Majority Leader in 1935. When he succeeded Joe Byrns, William Bankhead laid down his own requirements for a Speaker: "I should say that the most important is that the Speaker should be a parliamentarian. The second is that ... he should act impartially. . . . And he should have a sense of humor...
...cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger, however, Mr. Milland is tops to those who watched him to walk off with "The Gay Desperade." Most discouraging of all is Lloyd Nolan's completely unconvincing role as Atwater, the insane owner of a pearl...
...Pinkle did not eat much lunch that day, and no sooner left his house than he commenced picking more leaves off more bushes. He grew tired of chewing on them or swallowing parts, so he merely picked the leaves and threw them on the ground. The act was somehow soul-satisfying, an opiate to his empty dull life...
...this fall has sent an amazing number of student volunteers to the scattered settlement houses of Greater Boston, and also in the Personnel Adviser. Now the development and concentration of all phases has been accomplished by the drawing up of a constitution, through which the House will in future act...