Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman Fred Hartley Jr., coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act: "Mr. Dewey started acting like the President of the United States too soon...
...Taft-Hartley. High on the list was repeal of the Taft-Hartley law.* If Barkley had his way a new act would be written, much more to labor's liking. Some of the Taft-Hartley law which labor did not like: measures which outlawed the closed shop, required unions to file financial reports, required labor to hold elections to win union shop contracts, forbade union contributions to political campaigns, required officers to sign non-Communist affidavits, outlawed jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts. The business of new labor legislation was under the wing of Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin...
...pattern was the same across the land. Harry Truman's home state of Missouri elected RICHARD BOLLING, 32, a New Deal zealot who campaigned for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act; his home district named LEONARD IRVING, 50, a labor leader...
...Fort Benning, Ga., where the new philosophy of training was being experimentally used on Regular Army recruits, one young soldier tardily said: "The noncoms were polite when they first started off, but they hadda get rough or nothin' would be done. If they didn't act that way there would not be no Army...
Harvey Robinson '52, of Hollis Hall and Pittsfield, was elected chairman of the Union dance committee at a meeting Wednesday night in the Common Room. Chester Gordon '52 will act as business manager...