Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commonplace occurrence in Galveston's busy harbor. But the ship was momentarily famous. She was the first to be loaded under the provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act. Her appropriately nimble name was the John H. Quick...
...yearly expenditures from $105 million in 1938 to $92 million in 1943, slashed the payroll from 17,000 to 10,000, cut the property tax almost in half, established a civil service system, created the job of state "business manager" to watch every nickel. His "Count Ten" labor act, passed in 1939, was the first post-Wagner Act law which forced labor to show at least partial responsibility. It required a 10-to-30-day cooling-off period, cut strikes...
...Marshall Plan (China subordinated to Europe) ; a strong U.N. (he opposed the veto at San Francisco); the Taft-Hartley Act (except for the closed-shop, union political activity, and anti-Communist provisions); strong labor unions; tax reduction and debt retirement (any surplus split 50-50 between them); tax concessions for small business; Government controls on inventories, consumer credit, commodity speculation; a $1 billion-a-year Government housing program; rent control; FEPC; a modified U.M.T.; parity price support; admission of D.P.s...
...principles of the Taft-Hartley Act were upheld by a special three-judge court† in Washington last week. The court agreed that Congress may require unions to file membership and financial reports...
...readily admitted authorship of the recordings of his broadcasts which the prosecution played in court. He acknowledged all the counts against him, and he admitted intent to commit each individual act. "If I had it to do over again," he shouted, "I would do it again . . . They can hang me a thousand times, but I was not a traitor...