Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...citizens, of course, think this an odd way of getting things done. If President Truman, for instance, should declare that he would take nothing but water with a little bicarbonate of soda until the country behaved itself (i.e., acted as Mr. Truman thought it should), the U.S. public would not know what to think, or what to do about it. Last week, Mr. Truman was aboard the battleship Missouri (see The Presidency), eating very well. He was due back in the White House this week. And when he got there he would be confronted with problems as complicated...
...Bailey Circus. But no; the attacks had already begun. Michigan's Congressman Clare E. Hoffman, a hard-shelled, far-right Republican, at once denounced it as a Democratic "buildup for 1948." Illinois' 81-year-old Adolph Sabath, a Democrat, complained because no copy of the Wagner Labor Act was included in the exhibits. In Henry Wallace's New Republic, Langston Hughes, Red-winged Negro poet, heaved a shrewdly aimed rock...
When he started west last week, two carloads of reporters, photographers and radiomen left Washington, planning to meet him in Santa Cruz. They met him much sooner. The Senator told a reporter in Columbus, Ohio that he did not believe the Taft-Hartley Act would be an issue in the campaign. The newsmen in the special cars read that statement in Chicago, uttered wounded cries about being scooped, piled out, found Taft at the Union League Club and got interviews of their own. The Senator got on a fast train after that, beat the newsmen to the coast by twelve...
...town. Tough, chunky Harry Lundeberg, belligerent chief of the A.F.L. Seafarers Union and archenemy of Harry Bridges, asked for a chance to talk to him. The next day Harry Lundeberg startled everyone in sight. The Senator had told him that he was considering an amendment to the Taft-Hartley Act which would permit a closed shop if a majority of workers favored...
Counter-Revolution. As with most revolutions, this one bred its own counterrevolution. Last week, in the perfumed air of a pale blue room on the third floor of Manhattan's Saks Fifth Avenue, one act of that counterrevolution was being staged. There Designer Sophie Gimbel was displaying her fall collection of 125 models. In the world of high fashion, it was a notable event...