Word: acted
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...