Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis' U.M.W. was disclosed last year by the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee (TIME, May 3, 1937). At issue also was the question whether a Federal statute enacted just after the Civil War to protect Negroes from Ku Kluxers could be invoked to reenforce the National Labor Relations Act with criminal penalties. The act of 1870 makes conspiracy to violate any constitutionally guaranteed right an offense punishable by fines up to $5,000, imprisonment up to ten years. Inasmuch as the Wagner Act is a civil law entailing no such penalties for denial of the right to join...
...pricked by wit, were far removed from the solemn fudge of the Servant in the House era, made neither God nor Death embarrassing. On Borrowed Time, though pleasant, was very likely the most overrated play of the season. But Our Town (the Pulitzer Prize play), despite a third act which got beyond its depth, squeezed so much honest feeling, poetry and humor into its first two acts as to be, if not technically the season's best play, its most notable event in the theatre. Best play technically: Of Mice and Men, (which won the New York Drama Critics...
...desire to benefit humanity, Newton seems to have been free. From the point of view of most men his life, in spite of its prodigious achievements, would seem pointless. . . . His life was one long meditation, but his interest in the subject of his meditations was exhausted in the act of understanding...
...universal application of a workable blind-landing system would increase commercial air traffic as much as 500%. Reasons why this development has not yet been made: Airlines cannot afford field equipment ($25,000 to $40,000 per field); the Bureau of Air Commerce is authorized by the Air Commerce Act of 1926 to spend Government money for beacons and beams between airports but not at airports. If Congress makes a happy landing with some such legislation as the Hildebrandt Bill, now languishing in a House committee, the U. S. will pay for landing units at all important fields, and airlines...
...provide Nutmegman Broun with a delicate problem. As Guild President, he might logically be expected to urge the reporter to join the C. I. O. But Labor Leader Broun would also be the reporter's employer and if he did so he would violate the National Labor Relations Act. In the New York World-Telegram recently Cartoonist Will B. Johnstone limned this dilemma...