Word: acted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
Actually the reparations cuts were more nearly a political gesture than an act of generosity. Originally reparations to be paid by each country had been fixed at $300,000,000. In goods, services and occupation costs, the Soviet Union had already taken over three times that amount from Rumania. In Hungary, through seizure of so-called German assets and a system of joint Hungarian-Soviet companies, the Soviet control of Hungary"? economy had become so complete that further reparations payments would, in effect, mean that the Soviet Union was exacting war damages from itself...
Into Victoria Barracks at Beverley, Yorkshire, one day last week walked Walter Campbell, drummer of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He wanted to make sure of the medical benefits due all Britons under the new National Health Service Act, starting July 5. There was one difficulty. Drummer Campbell was a deserter, and had been since...
...management. Few expect the spiritual influence of Pendle Hill to be immediate or sensational; they are content to make a beginning. Nor are all Friends agreed as to how tl beginning should be made. At one conference, union representatives put up loudspeakers through which they berated the Taft-Hartley Act. The harangues came through clearly in the handsome Quaker homes that border the Pendle Hill property, causing these quiet neighbors to express definite anxiety at such stridency...
...Stalin: "I propose that we, the American people, again organize a Friendship Train ... to the children of Russia . . . Your acceptance . . . might be a milestone in avoiding the war . . . toward which we seem to be drifting." Pearson made the implications clear to his 30 million readers. If Stalin does not "act on it . . . then we will know exactly where we stand with Russia. We will know-and can tell Europe-that Russia is the real warmonger...