Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little ceremony had lasted only a few moments. It had not been a part of the President's official schedule, and no crowds had gathered. The U.S. Ambassador, Walter Thurston, who had suggested it, had done everything possible to avoid ostentation. But within a few hours the simple act had made Harry Truman a hero...
Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough tried to restrain Lewis until the question of his right to call off the contract could be settled by the courts. Goldsborough ordered him. not to call the strike. Lewis called the strike anyhow, arguing that the Norris-LaGuardia Act took away the court's authority to enjoin workers in a labor dispute. Obediently his miners, nearly 600,000 of them, walked out. Goldsborough convicted him of contempt and the case went to the Supreme Court...
...This unselfish act of the Workshop players and the Dramatic Club is appreciated enormously," Campbell stated, as spokesmen for both organizations disclosed the decision of their colleagues...
Richberg, a graduate of the Law School, is co-author of the Norris LaGuardia Act, the NIRA, aur the Burton, Ball-Hatch bill on labor relations. Because of his work on the last, he has been called a "turncoat" by pro-labor followers who recall his work on the Norris LaGuardia and the National Industrial Recovery Acts...
Ordinarily the committee does not act in cases concerning individuals, she added. Their most effective weapon in situations suggesting racial tension has been to attack the roots of hatred found within law enforcement and civic organizations...