Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most manufacturers of brand products support fair trade and the Miller-Tydings Act...
...news from Louisiana was that Governor Earl Long, after only seven months in office, was slipping. "Old Earl" looked like brother Huey, talked like Huey, and tried to act like Huey. But he was no Huey. By last week, Louisiana was pretty well fed up with...
...idea, and spent thousands of dollars to get it rolling across the U.S. last year, gathering up 700 carloads of food (worth $40 million) for France and Italy. It was not only potent propaganda for the U.S. in the East-West battle, but a memorable and characteristically Quaker act. Said the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond, of the Friendship Train: "One of the greatest projects ever born of American journalism." Next month, as a Gallic gesture of gratitude, a "Merci, America" train of 49 French boxcars will be shipped across the Atlantic, with such gifts...
Some of the older undergraduates, the letter admitted, had tried to stop the mob. One older boy, "indeed, performed an act of considerable courage when a smoke candle was thought to be endangering a child's life. Except for this," the Vice Chancellor concluded, "nothing can be said in extenuation of what must pass into University history as a shameful episode...
...city has not waited for the state to act. San Diego last month put into effect an ordinance regulating psychologists, "marriage counsellors," etc. A five-member city commission has set up the requirements for getting a license to practice: good moral character, two years of graduate study or the equivalent in psychology or related fields, plus two years of experience under proper supervision. By last week the commission had turned down one application and granted one (to a member of the commission). Several other applications are pending...