Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jittery Prague, President Eduard Benes' nephew, Jiri Benes, front-paged an editorial declaring blandly that Neville Chamberlain has sent Lord Runciman to act as a "witness for the Crown" in case war begins at the Czechoslovak border. Its conclusion...
When U. S. railroads returned to private hands after the War, the Transportation Act of 1920 created a U. S. Railroad Labor Board of nine. Woodrow Wilson's sensible appointees were soon succeeded by the patronage appointees of Warren Harding. A strike of 400,000 railroad shopmen in 1922 thoroughly exposed the board's incompetence and in 1926 the Railway Labor Act replaced it with a five-man U. S. Board of Mediation. This failed to succeed because the law provided no penalties for evasion of the board's decisions and because Calvin Coolidge's appointees...
...Administration's oft-reiterated stand that cutting wages is against the best interests of the U. S. Messrs. Leiserson, Beyer and Cook last week hoped to settle the wrangle, but most observers guessed that the case would progress to the final stage provided by the Railway Labor Act-either appointment of an emergency investigating board by the President or arbitration by a group jointly appointed by the opposing sides...
...bale cotton crop, 7,000,000 bales below 1937's bumper yield, but 700,000 bales above the average unofficial forecasts. Average spot prices fell to 8.35? a lb., only eight points above the figure at which cotton loans become mandatory under the Agricultural Adjustment Act...
...Claiming he was U. S. "Onion King," Ben Balish last year bought out his partner, quiet, wealthy Carl I. Dingfelder (TIME, Oct. 18). Last fortnight, the 42-year-old Onion King declared himself broke, asked permission to reorganize Benjamin Balish Co., Inc. under Section 776 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act...