Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the Agricultural Adjustment Act was rewritten in 1935, it authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to arrange marketing agreements on almost every kind of farm produce except honey. Last week, bees were finally brought under the supervision of the U. S. Government when the President signed a special bill authorizing Secretary Wallace to enter into marketing agreements with beekeepers...
...Black had 40 names on their petition Cotton Ed stormed into the Senate: "Mr. President ... I think it is unfair to the committee. . . . We are studying the problem and doing the best we can to solve it. The farmer himself is only afraid of suffering because of the act of God. He has reduced his acreage but he cannot control the seasons. . . . There is a law which empowers the Commodity Credit Corporation to meet the emergency...
Peace Preservation Corps. Japanese never tire in their efforts to find Chinese who will act as trustworthy puppets, and in the past two years they have equipped with Japanese rifles, Japanese cartridges and even Japanese machine guns several thousand Chinese known as the Peace Preservation Corps of "General"' Yin Ju-keng (TIME, Dec. 2, 1935 et seq.). Toothy Mr. Yin, who looks most of the time like a startled rabbit, is a Chinese with a potent Japanese in-law who became a "general" overnight by so styling himself, and by the grace of Japanese bayonets. He was ruling uneventfully...
...strong A. A. A had come forth to play the part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating the unions into a harmonious structure, planning long range policies. It will light censorship, act as liaison between acting groups and other unions, give a lift to WPActors...
...Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...