Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report came in a week when Congressmen were in a mood to act against anyone with the faintest Red tinge. President Truman had ordered full inquiries into the political loyalties of federal jobholders (TIME, March 31). He directed that loyalty boards be set up in each department. The President's plan provided some rights of defense and appeal...
...Kansas' dour, white-haired Republican Congressman Edward Rees seized the moment to bring up his bill for establishment of a five-man federal board of review, which would pass on the loyalty of all employees and applicants. The Rees bill's board would act as prosecutor, judge and jury; furthermore, those accused would be denied the right to confront their accusers and would have no appeal to the courts if found guilty. To many people, these measures seemed to infringe civil rights. But all attempts to modify the bill failed; the House jammed it through...
Gardeners, Miners, Vintners. In the hot July sun, people tend the little vegetable gardens from which other people steal by night, and gardeners and thieves both act from the same motive-to store food against the awful winter ahead. In Bavaria, a famous movie actor who played leading roles in Nazi anti-Semitic films, is cleared by a denazification board, and before another Spruchkammer in the U.S. zone appears a former high official of the late Ribbentrop's Foreign Office, likewise to walk away a free...
...session had produced a lot of talk, but so little legislation that the Ottawa Journal complained editorially: "Not Much to Show for Six Months' Work." Among the items put off to the next session: revision of the Income Tax Act; the federal labor code; revision of the Dominion Elections Act...
...Columbia wanted them to do Open the Door, Richard instead. They had 15 minutes to work out an arrangement. It sold 650,000 copies. The Three Flames have now been signed to a five-year recording contract with Columbia. They are making plans to let Paris in on the act next February...