Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Born to Act." How super was he? Since becoming Secretary of State, Marshall has made one speech, a Washington's Birthday address at Princeton University; it left wide-open the question of his stature in his new job. He passed on a wholesome reminder that "peace is yet to be secured." In a pungent passage (which might be applied critically to the U.S. hands-off policy in China) he deplored the spectator attitude of many Americans. He quoted Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth...
...Act of Faith. The temperature of The Crisis patient was charted in Britain's dwindling dollar holdings and in her trade balance (TIME, Feb. 3). Britons asked themselves if a Government which had bet wrong on a shortage in coal might not also bet wrong on a shortage in dollars. Would Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton suddenly appear in Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell's calamitous role? Or would the Government, now alert to dangers, try to save dollars by restrictions on such comparative luxuries as U.S. cigarets, Hollywood films, Texas grapefruit and dried eggs...
...British Government knows that more & more restriction is not the answer to its trade problem. On April 8, when Britain sits down at Geneva with the U.S. and 16 other nations to talk tariffs, the British are prepared to make an act of faith. They may surprise other delegates by offering to abandon a big part of the Empire preference system in return for tariff concessions in the hard-money countries, particularly...
Jack McCloy did not become a hero by the simple act of accepting the Bank's presidency (salary: $30,000 a year, tax-free). What made McCloy look good to businessmen was the efficient way he had gone about cleaning up the troubles of the Bank before he took over...
Boomerang! is based on a case in the early career of the former U.S. Attorney General Homer Cummings. It was photographed, completely outside the studio, in the streets, houses, churches and civic buildings of Stamford, Conn. A number of ordinary citizens get effectively into the act, though most of the speaking roles are handled by skilled professionals...