Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, Democrats and their amateurish ally, the C.I.O.'s Political Action' Committee, decided that the special congressional election in Pennsylvania's Eighth District was made to order as a 1948 testing ground. The Taft-Hartley Act, they thought, would be the issue...
...best-watered G.O.P. fields in the country. But it attracted the Democratic donkeys like an acre of fresh clover. The district is about evenly divided between labor and rural areas. And the Republican candidate was the man who had guided Pennsylvania's version of the Taft-Hartley Act through its legislature: slender, 37-year-old Franklin Lichtenwalter, Speaker of the state's House of Representatives. The Democrats figured that if they could bite off a good-sized section of normal G.O.P. pasture, they could claim a comeback trend...
...Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent his name and presence. As for a trend, the Republicans could cite one: the Taft-Hartley Act is apparently not a liability to them, and it is going to take something...
...executive council. He was almost cocky as he talked to newsmen. He told them he would recommend that the A.F.L.'s officers get into step with the new National Labor Relations Board and sign the non-Communist affidavit, which is a prime proviso of the Taft-Hartley Act. He was sure that the other 14 members on the council felt the same...
...chickens too soon. Four afternoons later, newsmen listened to an angry roar that boomed now & then through the closed doors of Parlor D. John L. Lewis, it seemed, was damned if he'd sign any such affidavit. Any members who would knuckle down to the Taft-Hartley Act, he cried, were "cowards and weaklings...