Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point a new and tender note enters his life. He is struck by an appealing little girl who has trouble walking because of a poorly act broken leg. They become fast friends, and O'Malley learns that she is the daughter of one John Phillips (Humphry Bogart) whom he has railroaded to the State Prison. Realizing his shortcomings, he has a famous doctor reset the girl's leg, obtains a parolo for Phillips, and, in short, "goes soft...
...know, one of the major efforts of this Department, which will be vigorously continued should Congress renew the Trade Agreements Act of 1934, is the negotiation of agreements with other nations whereby the barriers to trade are lessened and a greater movement of trade facilitated. I am certain that this program will bring mutual economic advantage to this country and to other countries, and that the resulting economic stimulus and improvement in the world will lessen the burdens placed upon governments. Further, the improved opportunity and the increased hope which the enlarged international trade will bring should favor the maintenance...
Possibly, Bullitt's address was a direct hint that President Roosevelt plans intervention in foreign conflicts. More likely, however, it is, at best, merely an indication that the United States and the Roosevelt administration approve, but will not necessarily act in the France-British campaign was a formal statement that American sympathizes for an end to the armament race. That the address are with European democracies in general cannot well be doubted in view of the wording of the speech. Stating that the people of America are "not indifferent to" the plight of those nations who are striving to maintain...
...neutrality. Neutrality will always be regarded by injured belligerents as unfair and menacing. If we are to have teeth, we must always run the risk of biting our own tongues. On the whole, the Resolution should find its way to the Congressional Record without very much opposition. The "Peace Act of 1937" deserves to become a reality...
With a bill to be titled "The Peace Act of 1937" the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Saturday clearly indicated that the United States will no longer float about in a non-existent sea of neutrality, cringing at every warlike move, and yapping whenever its long commercial toes are tread upon. The new neutrality proposal is so positive and direct in its method that it practically bares its fangs and curls its lips to maintain peace in face of a foreign war, In the plain words of its author, Senator Pittman, the bill does "not attempt to construe, determine...