Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor James V. Allred, now a U. S. district judge, is debarred from anti-Garner campaigning by the Hatch Act (no politicking for Federal employes). The most sincere New Dealer of the lot, Maury Maverick, has got himself into political trouble in Texas by espousing free speech for Communists and letting the home folks think he has "gone national." This week Mr. Maverick got into his worst trouble yet. Along with a local official and a former business agent of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, he was indicted by a Bexar County grand jury charged with using union contributions...
...curtain in a Broadway playhouse went up, several years ago, on an Alaskan valley and a colony of bankrupt, wrangling, hopeful, bewildered, bitter Midwesterners transplanted there by the U. S. Government. The play was called 200 Were Chosen. Act I-"This is the Matanuska Valley-best little "valley in South Alaska. The Government brung you here and it's gonna...
...farmers-we've got to get a-farmin'. We ain't goin' back on no Goddamned relief no more. . . ." Act II-"If you think anyone can make a livin' in this dump you're crazy...
...Summers are all right . . . but winters-thirty-five below! Drifts twenty feet deep! A man can freeze to death up here as easy as holding out his hand. . . ." Act III-"People were up all night. You could hear 'em coughing...
...Ever since Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed their non-aggression pact in late August, Communists outside Russia have performed one verbal trapeze act after another. Particularly embarrassed by the Stalin-Hitler handshaking was British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, a stocky 48-year-old man long known as the British Party's "ablest propagandist and spokesman." Although he had long praised the Soviet Union, defended Dictator Stalin's frequent purges and written powerful pieces against Fascist aggressions, Secretary Pollitt could not see his way to follow the new "party line...