Word: acte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cried New York's Representative Taber: "If a Republican had delivered such a ruling he would have been called a 'fifth columnist' by the gentleman in the White House." Snorted Pundit Walter Lippmann: "To roast pigs we must burn down a barn; to strengthen the Wagner Act we must weaken the National Defense...
...dynamo of Canada's wartime machine). All have Cabinet rank; each has his own organization. Only when matters affecting two or more services come up does Mr. Ralston on occasion function as top Minister. Then the three Ministers and the chiefs of the three service staffs generally act in council, find that this system works better than...
...home, they may send some friend to the registration place, to be sworn in as a temporary registrar who will return to the sick man's home with a form, take the filled-in form back to the registration officer. If the invalid cannot get someone to act for him he must register within five days after he gets up. Hospital superintendents, doctors, nurses will be delegated to register their patients. Portable invalids (e.g., in wheel chairs) can take their choice of sending a friend or of wheeling to the registration office...
...week's end lights burned late in the old grey State Department building in Washington. If Cordell Hull & Co. were not talking, at least they were pondering -perhaps preparing to act. Unless the U. S. was willing to go all-out against Japan, it would be useless to slap an embargo on oil, because that would be an invitation to Japan to take the East Indies. But an agreement with Britain for a string of Far Eastern naval bases from New Zealand to Singapore was worth pondering, as were the chances of Japan's risking war to keep...
...firm in the belief that funnymen should remain on the stage only long enough to give his girls a chance to change their clothes. In Boys and Girls Together, Ed Wynn reverses the master's dictum. From the moment he steps out of an old trunk in Act I to announce that all the actors come from show boats and hence his "cast was bred upon the waters," until the final curtain, Wynn is, in evidence practically all the time...