Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signed most of them-the appropriation bill for foreign aid with real pleasure. But he seized every possible occasion to aim a fresh shaft at Congress. He reluctantly approved pay raises of $330 to $450 a year for 1,318,000 federal employees "even though the act meets neither the needs of the employees nor those of the Government...
...President saved his heaviest fire for S.2790, a bill "to amend the Servicemen's Readjustment Act." Said Truman scathingly: "For reasons which are quite understandable, the Republican leaders of the House of Representatives insisted upon calling this measure a 'housing bill.' " This "hasty patchwork," he said, failed to provide farm housing, slum clearance, financial aid for large-scale home construction, prefabricated housing, or low-cost rental housing. Cried Harry Truman: "In this case, as in many others, the 80th Congress has failed miserably...
Judge Goldsborough rejected any argument that the Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction law made the order illegal. Although the railway brotherhoods are exempt from the Taft-Hartley Act, Judge Goldsborough applied the philosophy of that act, which permits injunctions...
Last week Anna announced that she had sold the paper, as her "last act" fired 60 employees by registered letter.* At week's end the sale was called off; the minority stockholder, for unexplained reasons, had vetoed the deal. But the paper was still on the block...
...reconnoitering deep in the territory of Bank of America and Giannini's holding company, Transamerica Corp. (which also controls 40 smaller banks, owns stock in dozens of industrial and insurance companies). Guided by their reports, FRB last week swung its sling. Under a section of the Clayton Antitrust Act that has never been used before, it quietly issued a stern order to Transamerica: show cause why FRB should not order it to end certain "monopolistic" practices. (Transamerica must answer the charges at a closed hearing in November, may appeal FRB's decision to the courts...