Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Hatch of New Mexico called on Mr. Roosevelt to discuss with him, section by section, the new "Act to prevent pernicious political activities" which would hamstring the Roosevelt national political machine as well as take politics out of Relief (TIME, July 31). After their talk, Mr. Roosevelt, taking care not to imply that he would veto the act, ridiculed it as vague, unenforceable. Might a Federal employe affected by the bill attend a political rally? he asked. If his good friend were running for office, might that employe sit on the platform? Make a supporting speech? A voluntary contribution...
...course at Harvard Law School. Counseling King Rama VI of Siam on foreign relations (1923-25) gave him grounding in Oriental affairs, King Rama called him "Phya Kalyam Maitri" (The Beautiful in Friendship). Lately he has worked with Secretary Hull on reciprocal trade treaties, with Senator Tydings on the act to cushion the Philippines' severance from the U. S. in 1946. His salary will jump from $9,000 to $18,000 (plus fat perquisites...
...Said he, the A. M. A. had "restrained trade" by closing the doors of Washington hospitals to doctors employed by Group Health Association, Inc., a voluntary health-insurance club of Government employes. In December a special Grand Jury indicted the A. M. A. for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The A. M. A.'s demurrer claimed that the practice of medicine is a profession, not a trade, and hence is not subject to the Sherman Act...
...well or quickly. "The useless assistance given to the child is the first root of all repressions and hence the most perilous injury the adult individual can do to the child. . . . The adult must help the child, but help him in such a way that he may act for himself...
...meeting. C. I. O. leaders believe that Mr. Copperman's Union, once aggressive, was taken into camp by MRA. And Californians recall how, five years ago, Buchmanites claimed they had "settled" the longshoremen's strike, "the first strike in history in which Christ was called upon to act as arbiter." That strike went on long after Buchmanites had been guided to urge the longshoremen to forget their troubles, go back to work...