Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmer Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
...please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent, and not the act...
...papers got some help from commercial print shops, where I.T.U. members - fearing to violate the Taft-Hartley Act by a secondary boycott - set ads for the newspapers. Other unions avoided sympathy moves that might violate the law. By week's end, the dailies were printing newspapers of about their usual size; the Tribune ran 116 pages Sunday, the Sun a 152-page tabloid with 96 pages of news...
...singers to pick from. But the first three weeks had passed with little but mediocre opera-and sometimes worse. In staging and pace, the Met still hadn't picked up any tips from its Broadway neighbors. The scenery was shabby: that was familiar. The singers couldn't act: that was nothing new. But worst of all, some of the singers couldn't even sing...
Lavery did not approve of the decision of the movie industry, a private group, to act as a judiciary, firing the ten cited for contempt...