Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over-the-counter market. "We have not forgotten the fact that the Act calls for regulation in the over-the-counter market similar to that in the Exchange field. We will press for that goal...
...eight years the U. S. Government has been struggling to solve the problem of unemployment but not until last summer did Congress act to find out how many-people in the U. S. are unemployed. Columnist Hugh Johnson suggested a compulsory registration along the lines of the World War draft. Massachusetts' young Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. proposed a $20,000,000 door-to-door census. In the rush of legislation at its session's end, Congress passed a bill which called for an unemployment census, appropriated $5,000,000 and left the kind...
...After my examination of the wreckage I have no hesitation in saying this was the most stupid and most brutal act of modern warfare. Great Red Cross characters were painted across the roof giving the name of the hospital. One hundred and fifty patients were killed, 200 medical staff servants and others, to a total of over 500 casualties...
...ingenious, its principal characterizations warmly human, its early 20th Century episodes (reminiscent of Ah, Wilderness, Eugene O'Neill's better realized, if less ambitious, comedy) highly entertaining. Director McClintic's staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition...
...city's newsorgans' attention from political squabbles to constructive achievements of the schools. This won him a job as public relations man for the Cleveland school system. He was the chief witness against Eugene Debs when that celebrated pacifist was tried for violation of the Espionage Act as a result of a speech made in Canton, Ohio, in 1918 and given a 20-year sentence. Later he regretted the outcome, tried to obtain Debs's release...