Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately drew fire from New Jersey's redheaded Congressman Fred Hartley, committee chairman and coauthor of the Taft-Hartley Act. Hartley's voice trembled with outrage as he cried: "Do you know that the London Gramophone Corp. is flying records to the United States, and that it brought in twelve tons this week and that 250,000 more records are on the way? These British companies will make lots of "money...
...hours, the fascinated committee was gazing at Petrillo like high-school sophomores watching a juggling act. One member, Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman Carroll D. Kearns, a member of the union, suggested amending the Taft-Hartley Act to authorize royalties on records sold for commercial use. The hearing ended. Further hearings were postponed. Everyone-including James Caesar Petrillo-seemed very, very happy...
Thus-last week began the third act of a romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
Last week President Truman's Board of Foreign Scholarships announced that the first Fulbright Act scholarships were open: 50 for U.S. scholars and graduate students to study in China, six more in the new Union of Burma. In the works: agreements with 19 other nations
...most difficult assignment was to fathom the doings of the "Med. Facs," a mysterious society, the invitations to which embraced acts which if detected by the College officers might mean expansion from the University. No one could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which...