Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispute between France and Turkey over the administration of Alexandretta was settled through the League of Nations by giving Alexandretta "autonomy," i.e., turning it over to its Turkish majority (TIME, Feb. 15), and the Dictator declared last week: "There is no doubt that France will continue to act in good faith...
...sombre: La Cambiale di Matrimonio ("The Matrimonial Market"), Rossini's first operatic work, an opera-buffa composed when he was 18; Angelique, music by contemporary Frenchman Jacques Ibert, the story of a shopkeeper's efforts to sell his shrewish wife; Le Pauvre Matelot, a "lament in one act," music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique...
...Most prominent test case challenging the utility death sentence is that brought by Electric Bond & Share Co. which has refused to register with the SEC as required by the Public Utility Act of 1935. This week E. B. & S. and every other utility holding company was dealt a severe blow when the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of Federal Judge Julian W. Mack which restrained E. B. & S. from using the mails or other means of interstate commerce unless it signed up with...
...belief there was in his good intentions, how cheaply sensational the general interest had been. In the end, still trying vaguely to do right, he gets mixed up in a complicated mess, shoots a cop, is fatally wounded. Unless the title is completely ironical, this finale must be the act of redemption which causes joy in Heaven "over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance...
...immediate. Footballs are stolen, cars are looted, Dunster House suffers, students are heckled in the streets, and even the Yard rings to the yells of boys belligerently flying the flag of sour grapes. Rather than wait for action from the University in outfitting their vacant lots, why not act ourselves? Phillips Brooks House is not overtaxed. In Cambridge settlement houses Harvard men can do a world of good, if only to themselves. Since it is the student body that suffers from these potential criminals, students are the ones to interest boys in constructive recreation. The immediate solution, then...