Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week Circuit Court Judge John Albert Matthewman dismissed the charges. The disloyalty provisions of the act were invalid, he decided, since they encroached on the prerogative of the U.S. Congress. It was "fundamentally true" that the right of free speech is subject to the "proper exercise of police power," but only when there is "clear and present danger" of a breach of the peace...
...Canada, opinion is divided as to whether Dionne's scheme is the "oeuvre de charité" (charitable act) that the Sisters of the Good Shepherd call it. The General Council of the Catholic Labor Syndicates called it a "great scandal." Other unions have protested. In the House of Commons at Ottawa, CCFer Clarence Gillis labeled it "a fire sale of human misery." But among the 12,000 D.P.s in Camp Wildflecken, near Fulda, Germany, the idea sounds fine. Last week Ludger Dionne, with the help of doctors and the Canadian consul, was busy hand-picking his 100 new mill...
Loud Holes. This is roughly the way many sirens work, but Inventor White has added something extra. The channels in his steel disc are designed to act as resonators, i.e., to intensify sound waves. When they are closed by the wheel's teeth, the air rushing through them stops suddenly. A compression (sound) wave builds up, reverberates back & forth as if the channel were a tiny organ pipe. When the wheel is revolving at proper speed, the wave snaps back just in time to find the end of the channel uncovered. It pops out into the open, carrying with...
...Shock." As if he had not enough troubles of his own, the unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...troubles, too, of course-would be diminished if the status of illegitimacy were corrected by uniform law. Under present U.S. law, says he, the male tends to get the notion that the important thing is not to get caught. If he becomes a father, he can rationalize his act by saying that he was hooked by the machinations of a scheming woman. In Sweden, where the state is concerned only with the father's responsibility to contribute to his child's support, unwed fathers are much less jumpy...