Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same day, the Government went to court and got a temporary restraining order, a necessary preliminary to obtaining an 80-day injunction under the Taft-Hartley Act. The court ordered Lewis to refrain "from continuing the strike now in existence." But early this week the miners were still on strike and John L. was closeted with his lawyers...
...head of the political stairs. Almost all observers were betting that Favorite Son MacArthur would win a majority of the state's 27 Republican convention delegates in this week's preferential primary. But Candidates Tom Dewey and Harold Stassen, who were very much there, tried hard to act like men who didn't care. Both of them had scoured the state in a fierce struggle for the leavings...
...Marshall Plan, for months one of Europe's few promises of hope, had at last become reality by act of the U.S. Congress. John Osborne, chief of TIME'S London bureau, cabled the following account of how Europeans took the news...
Never before have the attitudes and acts of one nation mattered so much to so many people in the world as every impulse, wish and act of the U.S. will hereafter matter to the Western world. Never before have the attitudes and capacities of so many other nations mattered so much to the U.S. What awaits Americans in the Europe which they have undertaken to preserve, restore, and if need be to defend...
...large sections of the non-Christian world, suicide was and is often accounted an honorable act. Christianity, which believes that every human life belongs to its Creator, has always regarded suicide as a sin. The so-called Christian world of today, sadly confused on matters of life & death, gives lip-service to Christian belief but takes its hat off and stands to attention before a deed of pagan virtue. This confusion was well illustrated last week by Unitarian Minister A. Powell Davies of Washington, D.C., who hailed Jan Masaryk's self-destruction as a hero's act. Wrote...