Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...import quotas and other dollar-saving devices. In a world where dollars are short everywhere, that meant that tariff reductions now would probably not amount to much more than a one-way street into the U.S. for foreign exporters. If a rebellious Congress fails to renew the Trade Agreements Act next June, the other end of the road will soon be closed again...
...Washington's Howard, Robbie picked up more money in two weeks than the $5,000 Branch Rickey paid him for seven months with the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers (TIME, Sept. 22). Last week his show played Chicago's Regal Theater. It wasn't much of an act. He was onstage only eight minutes, and he neither sang nor danced-just answered, in a modest manner and a clear voice, questions about his career...
...take at the Regal, Jackie had to pay for the rest of his company, including a twelve-piece jazz band, a puppet act, and a comic who ate cigarettes. But he still had a lot left for himself...
...minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...
...this thing." They wanted public pressure to build against Petrillo. Actually, he hadn't asked for a thing yet. Most of them, to stay in business, would have willingly continued to pay Petrillo's AFM $2,000,000 a year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other way of paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers...