Word: actes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's "incapacitation" or death (TIME, Feb. 8) was urged with dignity in the House last week by Home Secretary Sir John Simon. As England's greatest lawyer, Sir John recalled how the insanity of King George III prevented that unfortunate monarch from assenting to the Regency Act made necessary by his madness. The present Regency Bill, proposed by King George VI in "a message signed by His Majesty's own hand," should obviate Regency Act difficulties for all time, according to Sir John Simon, and overwhelmingly the House was with...
...requiring any maturity of judgment at all but merely the ability to write one's name in a fairly legible hand, then I should imagine that even the young heir to the throne just now, if she has attained ordinary educational advancement, is capable of this particular act." Such gentle fun sped the Regency Bill along to pass the House overwhelmingly 307 to 1, with Mr. Maxton not voting because he acted as a teller...
Much as customs inspection pains the homing U. S. tourist, it irks shippers more. For their relief and even more for the relief of U. S. ports that felt they were losing harbor business because of red tape, Congress passed the Foreign Trade Zones Act in 1934, making a limited type of free port permissible for the first time in the highly protectionist U. S. Free ports, isolated free trade areas, were once prevalent in Europe, included such cities as Naples, Leghorn, Hamburg, Marseille. Today, sprinkled over the globe from Copenhagen to Curaçao, are some 40 free ports...
...Roosevelt Birthday Ball, which he and shrewd Publicity Man Carl Byoir started rolling four years ago when they were working together on Coral Gables promotion, had again earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made one of the rare compromises of his life, offered...
...Avenue (Twentieth Century-Fox), like most musicals, has for a plot a clothesline upon which the producers can hang whatever suits their fancy. This time the line is pretty raveled, the appendages superb. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets...