Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...satisfactory national level. If a state has shown that, even after readjustment of its tax structure and budget, it is still unable to supply more funds towards educational expenses, the Federal Government should be empowered to step in with financial grants based upon need. Since a Federal aid act would have to be written and approved by Congress, it is extremely unlikely that any aid with strings attached could be passed. Our history and sentiment are strong on the question of state management of schools, and there is no reason why Federal aid could not be definitely divorced from Federal...
Under the Reorganization Act, Congress had to make up its mind by Feb. 15 what ceiling it would recommend on expenditures for the next fiscal year (ending June 30, 1948). There had been little time for committee hearings or detailed analysis of the President's budget. But last week the 102-member Joint Committee held a stormy session and hit upon a figure-$31.5 billion, or $6 billion less than Harry Truman had asked...
...merciless thumping in most newspapers (which were back to wartime four-page skimpiness).* Shinwell became a byword and a hissing. A music-hall comedian punned: "Be sure your Shinwell find you out." The House of Lords cheered as Viscount Swinton belabored him with "We suffer not from an act of God, but the inactivity of Emanuel." Shinwell got a bomb threat, and Scotland Yard put four constables around his small house in Tooting. Tooted Mrs. Shinwell: "Let them try to harm him!" Would her husband resign (as the Tory press had demanded and some Laborites had privately suggested)? Said...
...birth of conscience, the being who was to become man only differed from his ancestors morphologically. He was subject to the laws of nature, to the laws of evolution, he had to obey, and that was right. The moment he asked himself the question as to whether an act was 'good' or whether another was 'better,' he acquired a liberty denied to the animals. . . . Henceforth ... in order to evolve he must no longer obey Nature. He must criticize and control his desires which were previously the only...
...this price, Gimbels sold $3.85 pens so fast that it soon ran out, started dealing off new-model $1.69 and $2.69 Reynolds pens at the same bargain price. This disturbed Milton Reynolds so much that he threatened to sue Gimbels under the Fair Trade Act unless the store stopped price-cutting the new models...