Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apologies to the Crockers, and a feeling of pity for the citizens of that Hollywood community who evicted them. Such an act is disgraceful. ... I hope the Crockers will not judge our judicial system by the Aryan decision of Judge Ruben S. Schmidt...
...judgement must be referred to the appropriate Administrative Board for "investigation and report to the Faculty." Few students and fewer instructors are willing to go to such an extremity. But if there existed within each department a board of review, ready to consider grievances and with the power to act upon its decisions, a large proportion of whatever injustice exists would be climinated, and the cause of almost all student complaints would certainly be wiped out. Recourse to such an agency would not be so frequent as might be feared, for most students are good judges of their work...
Republican leaders and the NAM aim to "equalize" bargaining power--to restore the pristine purity in industrial relations which existed before the Wagner Act. They assume that the scales are weighted in favor of labor and that in order to secure "balance" it is necessary to abolish industry-wide bargaining, the closed shop and institute close government supervision of the finances of unions...
...Thursday, he will continue to Washington to testify before the interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the House in behalf of the new National Science Foundation Act now before Congress...
...notice in Americans most rapidly, it is generosity followed by lingering doubts that the good works are being mocked by a cynical recipient. In the minds of many Americans the poverty of Europe and the self-sufficiency of this country in 1947 do not create a situation where the act of succor would be an unqualified good. On the contrary, the simple act of feeding starving neighbors, a Golden Rule between individuals, becomes a delicate balance of gains and losses when nations go to work. And since American thought and action and even food contributions constitute an unofficial but effective...