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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Give minority craft and professional workers in a plant the right to have their own separate bargaining agents; exclude from the protection of the act any supervisors who can hire or fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The New Labor Rules | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with the air of a man who has just passed a damp baby to someone else. Congress had had to wrestle with a full-scale reorganization (under the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act); changing a lot of old customs took time. All legislation had to be worried over by committees. That also took time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: After Four Months | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...gulf of misunderstanding need not always be as wide as it is now. Chen says: "The essence of life is the performance of benevolence." Although Chen, fighting fire with fire, has performed many a non-benevolent act, he means what he says. He is willing to help lead China-slowly-toward something the West might recognize as democratic and Chen would recognize as Confucian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Chih-k'o on Roller Skates | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...outraged Canada's orthodox financiers, and the Liberal Government in Ottawa asked the Supreme Court of Canada whether the legislation was constitutional. Last week, by a 4-to-1 vote, the court ruled that Saskatchewan had trespassed on the Dominion's preserve-under the British North America Act, the right to regulate interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Mortgage Manners | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

...person entering the practice of medicine were always considering whether he'd be sued or not, he'd be nothing but a pussyfooter. I have no criminal intent. The woman and her husband have no criminal intent. To me it is a decent and humane act, and I stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Stand | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

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