Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...responsible for 1947's great step. Like many fateful decisions, it sprang only partly from the brain. It was an act brought about by events, and their steady, unending hammering on the U.S. sense of justice. But one man symbolized the U.S. action. He was Secretary of State George Marshall. As the man who offered hope to those who desperately needed it, he was the Man of the Year...
Then, continued U.S. aid to China forced Japan on the defensive. With war in Europe came allied blockades, embargos, encirclement. Japan's access to food, rubber, oil, was threatened. Still, "we did not anticipate . . . that America [would] . . . force Japan to make the first overt act." There had never been a conspiracy among Japanese leaders to make war. "I fail utterly to understand . . . this fantastic accusation...
Then he stabbed Ricci five times. He stabbed Marquis Cittadini-Cesi who rushed to Ricci's aid. When police took Capocci away, he said: "One must act, not just talk." Ricci died a few minutes later on the sofa in his study...
Neither printers nor publishers wanted a strike, but Denver's local 49 of the International Typographical Union did want to keep the closed shop. And the Post, Rocky Mountain News and Catholic Register could not agree to that without violating the Taft-Hartley Act...
Life-insurance companies were a little embarrassed by one present in their Christmas stockings. By a fluke in the 1942 Revenue Act, the Treasury announced last week, most companies would be exempt from income tax on their 1947 earnings. Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder cried: "The situation calls for the immediate attention of Congress...