Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Term resolution˜such as has become routine at conventions of C. I. O. affiliates˜Chairman Lewis squelched him. Thus Mr. Lewis had left wide open the question of C. I. O. al legiance in 1940. The convention then went on record against all amendments to the Wagner Act, and against diversion of Federal funds from social services to Rearmament (but did not oppose Rearmament as such). It demanded more Relief, more Housing, more and better Planning in the name of greater production, greater employment, greater consumer purchasing power...
...well as France and Great Britain, still recognizes Leftist Spain as the legitimate Spanish Government and has not granted belligerent rights to Rightist Spain, any interference with U. S. shipping (as well as French or British) by the Rightist navy or air force would, under international law, be an "act of piracy." Legal niceties have not prevented Generalissimo Francisco Franco, however, from bombing British and French ships and seizing Scandinavian ships, although so far. with few exceptions, he has let U. S. shipping alone...
...First act of the National Unity group was to introduce a bill which, when passed, will permit the President to do away with Parliament, rule by Cabinet decrees. Thus the last trace of Czechoslovak democracy will be wiped out and the nation will become a semi-dictatorial State...
...years The Great Nelson has done a balancing act supporting his entire body on two thumbs. Fortnight ago, in Brockton, Mass., he surpassed himself: supported his entire body on one thumb...
...third act is excellent. Here the shades of the past make their exit; here Captain Dale's will is read to his survivors--here, called away by those who went before him, he begs forgiveness for the weakness of his latter years...