Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week. Under its terms Ramsay MacDonald will receive for the rest of his life the income from $200,000, about $7,500 a year. To Ramsay MacDonald this windfall is happily not so all-important financially as loyal, generous Sir Alexander had thought it would be. By an act of Parliament, passed after the will was made, Mr. MacDonald is entitled to a pension of $10,000 a year as a onetime Prime Minister. Moreover, because fortnight ago he decided to stay in the House of Commons rather than accept an earldom (TIME, June 7), he will...
...ACT I, SCENE I. Elsinore. A platform before the castle. Francisco at his post. Enter to him Bernardo...
...play by John Van Druten & S. N. Behrman is literate but logy; John Stahl's direction is stately but pedestrian; Myrna Loy behaves as though she missed The Thin Man, and not even mutton chop whiskers and a turret-top collar can make Clark Gable look, sound or act like the uncrowned King of Ireland...
...airlines are in much the same position as adolescent children of divorced parents. By the terms of the divorce (the Air Mail Act of 1934, passed after the celebrated Farley-Roosevelt airmail cancelation), "Mother" Interstate Commerce Commission has "influence," some jurisdiction. But "Father" Post Office-by control of the airmail subsidy-has the whip-hand. "Mother" I.C.C. would like to let the growing business expand in healthy exuberance. "Father" Post Office, remembering the airmail scandal, treats the airlines like boys in a reform school...
This situation has resulted in freezing the lines in practically the same status they found themselves in when the Air Mail Act of 1934 was passed. Though there are many places in the U. S. where extension of routes would benefit both nation and airlines, such expansions have almost always been forbidden. Sample case was the rejection two months ago of Transcontinental & Western Air's application to inaugurate useful service between Albuquerque and San Francisco (TIME, March 22). Last week American Airlines was similarly forbidden to inaugurate service between Detroit and Cincinnati and between Detroit and Indianapolis via Fort...