Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Benson owed his election to the fact that Minnesota's late Governor Floyd B. Olson had adopted him as a successor. Elmer Benson's record during his few months in the senate proves that he has a mind of his own, as witness his American youth act, his investigation of the black legion, his proposal of a liberalizing amendment to the constitution, and his stoppage of the Minneapolis and St. Louis railroad grab. These accomplishments would do credit to any man's six years in the senate, to say nothing of six months. Then, with no previous...
...Secretary of the Navy Swanson, wearying of the pressure, decided to have the question of foreign sales settled formally and finally by President Roosevelt. After a White House conference, Secretary Woodring announced that the President had ordered the State Department to invoke the export licensing section of the Espionage Act, refuse to license the export of U. S. military planes until their types have been in use by the U. S. for approximately two years...
Every important act of man tends to upset the balance of nature. Last week along 1,300 miles of Pacific littoral, from far south of Point Conception to far north of Cape Disappointment, clouds of seagulls flapped anxiously over the waves, ranging out beyond their normal habitats to look in vain for ship-strewn garbage. Because Pacific coast shipowners and the maritime labor unions were fighting, the seagulls were going hungry. It had been this way for two weeks and last week's end brought no improvement...
...between New Leaders Bridges & Curran and Old Leader Furuseth, so between old and new leaders in Labor's National organization was the issue drawn. But for the emergency in San Francisco, Mr. McGrady would have been flying 2,500 miles across country to Tampa, Fla. to act as peacemaker in Labor's biggest internal struggle of the generation. At Tampa this week the A. F. of L. holds its annual convention, and the old leaders, heirs of the late Samuel Gompers, headed by President William Green, were preparing finally to expel the insurgent new "industrial" unions headed...
...Buchman, who in his more infested moments, has asked for "a supernatural network over five wires," and for "a spiritual radiophone in every home," puts forward as the central object of the movement God-control of every person's every act. God-control is acquired by the faithful as a result of frequent "quiet times" when uninterrupted meditation produces God's answer to any troublesome problem. To a certain extent this seems to be the old faith in the natural man, a reliance on the efficacy of the still, small voice of conscience...