Word: acte
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Britain. At a press conference, after telling newsmen that there was "no news today." he held forth in monologue for 45 minutes. From it emerged the shape of his plan to aid Britain more directly without tangling in such political barbed wire as the Johnson and Neutrality Acts, for moves to amend either act would mean filiblustery months of debate in Congress while England was being bombed barren...
...years ago Appalachian Electric Power Co. decided to throw a dam across the New, five miles above the little town of Radford, Va. (pop. 6,898). The Federal Power Commission demanded that Appalachian accept a license to dam the stream for a power plant. Under the Federal Water Power Act of 1920, no navigable stream (or non-navigable stream affecting interstate commerce) may thus be obstructed without Government permission, and Commission licenses contain an acquisition clause whereby such projects may be bought by the Federal Government in 50 years...
...Roosevelt's ounce was followed by a pound from Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, in prose almost illegally lucid. Mr. Jackson argued that the imposing of uniform procedure on all agencies would act "as if we should average the sizes of all men's feet and then buy shoes of only that one size for the Army." Under the bill, any citizen substantially affected and displeased by a ruling "has everything to gain and nothing to lose" by suing in the D. C. Court of Appeals. If he loses, he may wait until the rule is again involved...
...haberdashery shop, Benny fiddled with juvenile orchestras, played for dances and firemen's balls. Proud hope of his family in those early years was that Benny would develop into a concert violinist. Instead he teamed at 17 with a vaudeville pianist named Cora Salisbury in an act called "From Grand Opera to Ragtime." As part of his business in this turn (for which he got $15 a week), Benny sawed away with the little finger of his bow hand elegantly extended, pretended to be mesmerized by its motion back & forth. On the vaudeville circuit around Waukegan this was uproarious...
...member of the Committee on Legislation of the Association of the Bar of New York City. Two years ago he went to Yale to become the university's librarian. As a private hobby, he had long worked on a detailed history of the American Revolution from the Tea Act to the French Alliance...