Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story around Washington was that he went to his old boss, George Marshall, about three months ago. The pressure for his candidacy had built up until it was almost irresistible. Ike felt that he would have to accept the call. But to the rigid and uncompromising Marshall, such an act on the part of a fellow Army officer would be a deed of disloyalty to their commander in chief, Harry Truman-who also wanted the job. Ike thought it over for 24 hours and went in to see the President through a side door. He solemnly promised Truman that...
...Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia, trying to hoist up the last piece of lumber before all the fears and feuds of the party were exposed. They listened to pleas and threats. Sometimes they argued. Labor's William Green demanded a plank for repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, for which most Southern Democrats had voted in Congress. Harold Ickes demanded federal control of tidewater oil lands, which outraged such states' rights defenders as Texas' ex-Governor Dan Moody...
Vague Remedy. The labor section, in deference to the C.I.O and A.F.L., demanded outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act. This put conservative Democrats on the spot. But only vague remedial legislation to reduce labor-management conflicts was suggested. On the question of tidewater oil rights: silence...
...weeks been filled with the roar of U.S. planes carrying food to besieged Berlin. "Up there," cried Spars, "the American people are showing their faith in the cause of our Berlin brothers every hour of every day. Yet we-their fellow countrymen-have done nothing. Now we must act! There is not much food for us here in Melsungen, but let us share with those brave Berliners what little we have...
...newly fashioned club, President Truman assured the jittery steel industry last week that there was no need to duck-yet. He "did not consider it appropriate" to invoke the drastic powers to control steel which the Republican Congress had unwittingly given him in a sleeper amendment to the draft act (TIME, July 5). Instead, the President asked the Department of Commerce to work out a voluntary allocation program to take care of military needs for steel...