Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Proclaimed amnesty (and thus restoration of civil rights) for 1,523 violators of the wartime Selective Service Act. Still unpardoned: some 13,600 violators. On Christmas Day, 16 of those still unpardoned put on mock prison stripes and picketed the White House for two hours, demanding amnesty...
...destiny that lay beyond Yorktown and Appomattox and Manila Bay, that lay mockingly behind a slogan ("Make the World Safe for Democracy") at Belleau Wood, took a new and decisive turn last year. It was in 1947 that the U.S. people, not quite realizing the full import of their act, perhaps not yet mature enough to accept all its responsibilities, took upon their shoulders the leadership of the world...
After intervention by the new Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, set up under the Taft-Hartley Act, the strike was called off-for sixty days at least...
...heyday as president of the rich American Farm Bureau Federation (membership: 1,275,000), he had no peer as a Washington lobbyist. He knew when to cajole, when to burst into anger, when to be imperious, when to recite statistics, when to tell a droll story. The Agricultural Adjustment Act was the result of Ed O'Neal's ideas. He "nominated" Henry Wallace for Secretary of Agriculture, backed his crop-control program ("Plow the little pigs under"), persistently pushed parity payments onward & upward...
...only the silhouette of A.C. was visible, but it was a striking silhouette. Its leaders claimed that it was purely defensive, would never act save in self-defense or when called upon by the government. But Avanguardisti "eyes" were in every important factory, including the Communist-thronged industrial area of Sesto San Giovanni. Boasted an A.C. member: "No hostile truck leaves Sesto without the Catholics in Milan being alerted...