Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usually somnolent, the House of Lords woke up to debate last week the act to broaden British grounds for divorce (TIME, June 14), with Lord Dawson of Penn, long physician to King George V and friend of Queen Mary, championing the bill. "When a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning," somewhat daringly observed Lord Dawson, while more than one bishop frowned. "Women are more sex-conscious than of old and demand a more sex-satisfying life. Why should marriage alone remain static...
...crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water in the sand which the parched party gulps in a frenzy...
Hunt, 33, "John the Revelator" to his fellow Divine cultists, was on trial charged with violating the Mann Act with a Denver 17-year-old named Delight Jewett (TIME, April 12). Defendant Hunt, eloquently seconded by his Negro Attorney Hugh MacBeth, explained that his "relations" with Delight Jewett were religious in nature. He wanted a "Virgin Mary" to produce a "New Redeemer." Could Judge Leon Yankwich understand that...
...said the FTC, "has been unreasonably to suppress competition, bring about unlawful discrimination in prices for goods of the same grade and quality, substantially increase the cost of golf balls to retailers and the public and to discriminate against small business enterprises." A separate count under the Robinson-Patman Act charged discrimination in price "between different purchasers of golf balls of like grade and quality, the effect being to lessen competition and create monopoly...
...presenting a united front to recalcitrant foreign debtors. The instrument shaped for this purpose was the Corporation of Foreign Bondholders, a tough-minded agency which has the active support of the British Government. In the U. S., Congress provided for an analogous agency in a rider to the Securities Act of 1933, but because this smacked of dollar diplomacy President Roosevelt instigated a private agency called the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council now headed by Joshua Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Ambassador to Mexico. Last week the Council published its annual report for 1936. An 866-page study in U. S. gullibility...