Word: actions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telling us (TIME, Oct. 30) what the English poets who were the youth of 1914 are doing under the impact of the new war. Would it be possible to elicit a statement of their present mental attitudes from Sassoon and Graves? They are of the tried troops of both action and thought, at once brave soldiers and honest men. It is appropriate to recall that Sassoon in 1917 made a public protest against the prolongation of the war in the following words...
...exciting new characters, put a punch in every scene. Author of this revised version was a bulky, mustached Yale professor, a Don but no Quixote, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. Since the construction industry protractedly has proved it cannot cure its own ills, Mr. Arnold sees only one alternative-action under the antitrust laws (which he enforces...
Weapon. For the first time in history, the antitrust division is ready, willing, able. In Theodore Roosevelt's trust-blustering days-13 years after the passage of the antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were 18 people in the antitrust division of the Justice Department. Their major problem was to keep awake in the warm Washington afternoons. Last week Mr. Arnold had behind him upwards of 160 lawyers, all of them loaded with shrapnel and ready to fire...
...Washington, a mile away from the humming Justice Department arsenal, sat a burly, pale, bush-haired man who smiled a smile of utter content. None knew better than C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis how heavily this barrage of antitrust action must fall on his erstwhile chum, A. F. of L.'s William Green...
Metrazol. Metrazol is a powerful stimulant of the centres which regulate blood pressure, heart action and respiration. Technique of metrazol injections is simple. A patient receives no food for four or five hours. Then about five cubic centimeters of the drug are injected into his veins. In about half-a-minute he coughs, casts terrified glances around the room, twitches violently, utters a hoarse wail, freezes into rigidity with his mouth wide open, arms and legs stiff as boards. Then he goes into convulsions. In one or two minutes the convulsion is over, and he gradually passes into a coma...