Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't quite as much a victory as it seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
...Millionaires", the idea is similar, but this two-act play covers much less ground than "Man and Superman," which has something to say about almost everything. Both plays deal with the affirmative man, who is in this case, an Egyptian doctor. This time, the Hell is on earth, and in the pursuit of its pleasures are a wealthy restless millionaires, her puerile sportsman of a husband, and their respective lovers. In the end, the millionaires finds a purpose for the power of money which she and her father have been accumulating for its own sake, in the doctor whom...
...potshot at grey-eyed, balding China-born Henry Luce. But disillusionment, as occasionally it must to all theatergoers, came last night to this reviewer. Yaleman Harvey Small (Luce) is soon lost in the shuffle of calico and cowboy boots and does not reappear until way into the last act...
Purpose of the council is to act as a liaison between undergraduates and the Graduate Committee on Regulation of Athletic Sport. The council considers any undergraduate complaints that may arise. If they are considered justifiable, they are passed on the graduate committee...
Under the terms of the Fulbright Act, over 800 American men and women will receive grants next year for graduate study or teaching positions abroad; in return foreign nationals will come to the United States for similar purposes...