Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seemed to be no way to achieve industrial peace except by giving labor what Sam Gompers once set as labor's chief aim: "More and more." In the spring of 1946 a kind of climax occurred. The great Railway Labor Act, hailed as the model machinery for peaceful settlements, broke down. An anguished and embarrassed Harry Truman demanded, among other things, the authority to draft the striking engineers and trainmen into the U.S. Army. And in the hysteria of the moment, 306 Congressmen agreed to that authoritarian expedient. The Senate, led by Taft, gutted the President...
...from $12 to $20 a month, an increase in clothing allowances from $40 to $48 a year. The boss said no. When the committee insisted that the boss could well afford the increase, the boss called the cops, had the committeemen ejected from the premises. Nobody invoked the Wagner Act. The committeemen were monks, the boss was the abbott of the ancient Coptic Christian monastery of Moharrak, 250 miles south of Cairo...
...around the barrier, thought Dr. Stern, why not inject medicines directly into the nerve centers in the brain? She first tried this dangerous experiment on dogs, got some astonishing results. Calcium solutions, injected into the blood stream in large doses, act as stimulants. When Dr. Stern injected a few drops of a calcium salt solution into a dog's brain, the effect was exactly opposite to the one expected: instead of being stimulated, the dog tottered, collapsed, in a few minutes fell fast asleep. When she injected potassium phosphate, the dog had a case of frenzied jitters...
Says Patrick: "We had to get away from the travel-guide idea. We wanted an adult magazine that would tell people more about the world so they could act intelligently when and if they set out to see it. We wanted a book that would inform them in a big, broad way." They had to ditch most of the excursion articles their predecessors had laid away, and convince authors that they didn't have to puff the places they wrote about...
School for Hypocrites. To Author Wylie, the churches and the laboratories are the chief villains of the piece. Modern man, he holds, first created God in his own image (a normal, instinctive act), then permitted this image to develop into a "school for hypocrites and university of ignorance." Meanwhile, scientists have gone to the other extreme: in the name of Pure Reason they have omitted morality from their researches. The result: an average citizen who is no better than a "bred sheep"-cut off by church, industry, shibboleths and social fear from self-knowledge and spiritual freedom...