Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was no such painless way to deflate the boom. There was one way, however. It was to recognize that expenditures for rearmament and foreign relief were pumping the U.S. economy up to a wartime basis-and to act accordingly...
...violence." In addition, each of the twelve was indicted individually for membership in "a society, group and assembly of persons who teach and advocate the overthrow and destruction of the United States by force and violence." The jury's weapon was the eight-year-old Smith Alien Registration Act, originally aimed at fifth-columnist aliens.† Its maximum penalty: ten years in prison and a $10,000 fine on each indictment...
Grinning, clownish Glen Taylor mounted the stand for his acceptance speech to assail the Marshall Plan, assail racism, assail Wall Street and U.S. military leaders. When he finished, his wife, his three small sons and his brother Paul joined him on the stand; like a well rehearsed vaudeville act, they all sang When You Were Sweet Sixteen. The applause swelled, then seemed to roll right out of the park and up to a wan and waning moon as Henry Wallace appeared, riding in an open car, circling the outfield...
...money men established bank accounts abroad. The refugee capital is now estimated at $70 to $100 million. Unrestricted dollar purchases reached as high as $1,000,000 daily in June. When, on the three days preceding the devaluation, they reached $2,000,000 daily, the government was forced to act...
Both techniques, says Father White, are valid means of combating two forms of evil - one called sin and one called psychoneurosis. "But the evil with which each is concerned is essentially different, even mutually opposed. Sin is denned as an evil human act . . . malum culpae -'the evil men do' ... A psychoneurosis, on the contrary, is a certain malum poenae - an 'evil men suffer' or 'undergo' . . . Confession presupposes the power to sin and to turn from sin and seek forgiveness ; analysis usually presupposes necessity and impotence...