Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kennedy than outlook for new ships was the "deplorable" state of maritime labor. "The shipping industry is now paying for its shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
What should be the U. S. shipping policy? Since the golden days of clipper ships the U. S. has never had a consistent shipping policy. Nor was it settled by the Maritime Act of 1936, for, as Mr. Kennedy points out, there are still three alternatives: 1) continuation of the subsidy program, which promises to bog down for lack of private capital, 2) Government ownership and private operation, or 3) straight Government ownership and operation. In other great maritime nations the course for Government domination of shipping is clearly charted. Mr. Kennedy seems to feel without saying so that...
...going abroad in the person of the King. Reason: The last time Leopold III went to London, His Majesty negotiated with the British Foreign Office and brought back to Brussels a treaty giving Belgium an altogether different status in Europe*(TIME, April 5 et seq.). This act of state by the King eclipsed in importance anything his Cabinet or Premier have yet done and was fully approved afterward by the Belgian Parliament, press and public. Thus King George is to be honored in Buckingham Palace this week by a state visit from a constitutional sovereign whose powers are real...
...jealous, bickering States, most of whose governors supported their own armies, into a tightly centralized commonwealth. Having put down revolution in São Paulo in 1932, he had himself elected President by a Constituent Assembly in 1934, promulgated a new constitution reducing States' rights. This act shortly produced further revolutionary rumblings. These Strong Man Vargas has dealt with chiefly by governing vast Brazil from his white Guanabara Palace under a succession of "State of War" decrees which have kept his 45,000,000 fellow citizens, who live in half of South America, virtually under martial...
...Manhattan, Davisson and his colleagues decided to find experimental proof of the de Broglie theory. If a beam of electrons could act like a beam of light, it should show a pattern of concentric rings when diffracted through a crystal. But the low-powered electrons (100 volts) which Davisson was using would not go through a crystal. He knew, however, that a beam reflected from the topmost atoms of the crystal structure would make a pattern similar to that made by a beam passing through. So he decided to explore the recoil pattern of electrons bouncing off the crystal surface...