Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damn the Torpedoes." After that, there was only one more hurdle to adjournment. In the face of Bob Taft's disavowal of his own long-range housing program, New Hampshire's Republican Charles Tobey forced the full Taft-Ellender-Wagner Act to the Senate floor. Promptly, Wisconsin's ex-Marine Joe McCarthy offered a substitute bill, which would simply increase loan and mortgage guarantees to private builders...
That had been proved countless times in previous congressional hearings. The Pujo investigation (1913) paved the way for the Federal Reserve Act. The Pecora investigation of Wall Street produced the Securities Exchange Act; the Black investigation of the utility lobby led to the Lobbying Act...
...friends decided to sell their rice paddies and take up piracy. They had $3,000 for expenses, and one of them, Mexican-born Chiu Tok, had learned to fly planes in Manila. Last week, Wong Yu confessed that they had committed the first recorded act of air piracy...
...sinner," yes. But might not his sins have been purged by an earthly purgatory of suffering? And did he not try to repent the final sin of all? When the poison he had swallowed brought a great cloud down over the room, Scobie was trying to make an Act of Contrition. And just before his body thudded to the floor, he managed to say aloud, "Dear God, I love...
...Mexico's seven symphony orchestras. His conservatory is full of students able for the first time to get complete training without leaving Mexico (although his critics impatiently say that "it hasn't yet produced one first-rate anything"). This fall the Institute will stage three commissioned one-act operas on Mexican themes. The drama department is drawing crowds. Chávez had cannily priced the tickets just under the cheapest movie in town...