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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume the responsibility as at first proposed or should they simply relieve the H.A.A. of the interdiction laid upon it and leave further organization up to Mr. Bingham? No Student Council committee should be asked to decide this problem for the Houses. It can only cooperate with those concerned, act as an intermediary, collect information, and most important of all gather opinions. In the final analysis, the Houses must settle these questions for themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTRA-MURAL REFORM | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

...street cars by spend ing $12,500,000 for 240 trackless trolley and 135 busses built by Twin Coach Co. Last week, Washington's Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime bandmaster, had the American Legion hire a brunette, a blonde and a redhead, all young and pretty, to act as publicity building "hostesses" on a demonstrator model of the new vehicles. Said Vic Meyers: "They will be neat, sweet and discreet. To protect them in the rush hour we'll put bumpers on them, fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Neat, Sweet and Discreet | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Act II in this shrewdly cast and skillfully acted show, Mrs. Murray puts a world of feeling into her comment, as she morosely carries out the tea things: "G -d- sex, anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 22, 1937 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...months over $11,000,000,000 worth of U. S. utilitarians only glared whenever the Securities & Exchange Commission made its stock appeal to their better selves-that by hushing their high-priced lawyers and registering under the Public Utility Act they could take advantage of the easy money market. Last month SEC's old argument gained new point with Judge Mack's decision in the Electric Bond & Share case (TIME, Feb. 8), which enabled a utility to register with SEC without thereby admitting the constitutionality of the Act's more dreaded provisions. Not slow to underscore this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Registration Without Surrender | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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