Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...William Green presented their conflicting views on the labor legislation which Senate leaders expect to bring to a vote tomorrow. The Senator defended the legislation as being designed merely to restore the balance of bargaining power which he claims was destroyed by the "one sided" Wagner Act. The logical structure of his statement is weakened by the contradictory argument which it contains. He declared that the bill which his committee drafted is for the protection of the "little business man. "Large employers are able to look after themselves. But further on he stated that the bill will shield the public...
Only since the passage of the Wagner Act has labor been able to express its desires through peaceful channels. The infrequent and over-publicized instances of labor abuses are insignificant when compared with the gains that unions have brought not only to themselves but to industry as a whole. Senator Taft would do well to study the history of the United Steel Workers for an example of what a mature union, working with a cooperative management, can accomplish. The process of collective bargaining, conducted with the very minimum of government supervision, can produce more stable and peaceful industrial relations than...
...hitting the ball with care, but without fuss. Determined to make her the world's best, her father, a former golf-course owner, had started her golfing at four. Usually Marlene considers golf fun, but a few weeks ago she had balked at practicing. Father, putting on an act of what he called "wrathful psychology," broke her niblick over his knee. She cried, repented, and went back to her practicing, thereupon won the Palm Springs Invitational Tournament (with play that included a par 70). Marlene's ambition: to beat National Champion Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
Nonetheless, the picture has a certain documentary interest. In it, posterity may see how many of today's most prominent musicians-some good, some not so good -look and act at close range, under weirdly confused, commercial circumstances. These artists include Damrosch, Heifetz, Pinza, Pons, Rodzinski, Rubinstein, Stokowski...
...himself. The course of true love involves a full-throated serenade, a sneaked love letter, a couple of disguises, some comic policemen, and denouements in which the entire company tears around singing its head off. The Italian lyrics are occasionally paraphrased in English captions, and before each act, Deems Taylor explains what is going to happen next...