Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee. If written into law, the committee's proposal would certainly live up to President Truman's boast that it represents "an American charter of human freedom in our time." The "if," however, is a big one. Several states, notably New York with its Ives-Quinn Fair Employment Practices Act, have already taken steps along the lines the committee indicates. And the Republican Party stands pledged to bring anti-lynching and anti-poll tax legislation before the current Congress...
Endorsement of two nominees for the school committee and two council candidates was delayed until five days before the elections because the HTU was checking to see if such action was in violation of certain provisions of the Taft-Hartley labor act...
...recent months things have not been going so smoothly. The Taft-Hartley Act, in a section aimed directly at Petrillo, banned payment of record royalties to a union. The Lea Act, enacted to prevent Petrillo's "coercing" of broadcasting studios (forcing them, among other things, to hire stand-by musicians), had passed its first test in the Supreme Court. Last week in Chicago, a charge of violating the act was filed against Caesar; if convicted, he could be sent to jail for a year...
...crack down on Communists, Congress last week established "military control bases" in some of the country's large cities. Mayors would act under the orders of the military commanders. Did that act presage an authoritarian regime? Most observers thought not. Brazil faced a dangerous situation created by its Communists in the first months of its new constitutional freedom, and felt it necessary to use stern measures to meet the threat. But Rio's sober Correio da Manha warned: ". . . Now more than ever, democrats must be vigilant in the face of the intentions and motives of the reactionaries, fascists...
...think that] anybody who doesn't act like an American, think like an American, or want to become an American . . . needs a psychiatrist...