Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first sight, the Barnes Bill could appear to be an unextravagant little document--unextravagant, certainly, in an era notable for the existence of the government loyalty tests and the J. Parnell Thomas Committee. The Bill is entitled as an act to "prevent Communists and others who advocate the overthrow of government by force, violence, or other unlawful or unconstitutional means from being employed as teachers or otherwise in institutions of learning or schools or in the public education system." Although anyone who calls himself a liberal would scarcely approve of such a bill, it might will be considered as acceptable...
With John L. Lewis missing, the annual Miami conclave of the A.F.L.'s executive council was as lifeless as a fried clam. But the A.F.L. elders bestirred themselves enough to issue a chesty proclamation. With the Taft-Hartley Act in effect, they declared, it is "beyond reason and common sense" to expect industrial peace to continue. "America is now experiencing a lull before the storm. When present collective bargaining contracts expire, the most difficult period in the history of labor relations in this country threatens to ensue." Whether this was an honest warning to industry or mostly propaganda...
...Arjuna asked: 'My Lord, how can we recognize the saint who has attained pure intellect, who has reached this state of bliss, and whose mind is steady? How does he talk, how does he live, and how does he act?' ". . . The sage whose mind is unruffled in suffering, whose desire is not to rouse by enjoyment, who is without attachment to anger or fear-take him to be one who stands at that lofty level. "He, who wherever he goes, is attached to no person and to no place by ties of flesh; who accepts good and evil...
While police were counting the money found in the box, a two hour job, the owner did a quick disappearing act. he has not yet been found, and police are withholding his name until they establish a more definite link with the Coop case. A co-holder of the same box could not be reached yesterday...
America must act in behalf of eastern Europe, "in order to keep up the morale of the people behind the iron curtain who are continually resisting Soviet domination," he declared. "Those people must be made to feel they are not forgotten, and that the promised Four Freedoms will some day come to them...