Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary, to draft the "anonymous" letter charging the Air Force- baselessly, as Worth had admitted-with corruption in the procurement of the B-36 (TIME, Sept. 5). He had hoped, he said, to set off an investigation that would let the Navy explain its opposition to the whole unification act...
Once, when Beaverbrook did act without consulting Franks, he got himself into difficulties. The Beaver turned up at a cabinet meeting with a set of inaccurate labor figures, which Franks and his statisticians could have told him were wrong. Bevin, who loathed Beaverbrook, was quick to spot the error. In the cabinet meeting they started quarreling and Churchill had to intervene saying: "I really can't have two of my cabinet ministers carrying on like this," "Well,", said Bevin, "I won't accept those figures from Beaverbrook. I'll accept them only from Franks...
Herr Heuss's first official act as President of Germany was to nominate Konrad Adenauer, leader of the largest (Christian Democratic) party, as Chancellor. When ratification came up for vote in the Bundestag, Adenauer squeaked through by one vote-he needed 202 of the 402 votes, and he got 202. It was a shaky start for the new coalition regime consisting of Adenauer's Christian Democrats, Heuss's Free Democratic Party and the small German Party...
...ostensible reason for the strike was wages (the printers had asked for a boost of $14.50 a week), but the real issue was Randolph's defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act ban on closed-shop clauses in contracts. Randolph dropped a formal contract, asked publishers to agree to "conditions of employment" continuing the prized closed shop that Chicago's printers first won 50 years ago. In many cities, publishers agreed; in Chicago, they refused...
Simple goiter (enlargement of the thyroid gland) is one of the few diseases which might be conquered by Act of Congress. Prevalent in a wide "goiter belt" running from western New York through the Great Lakes basin and across the plains to the Rockies, this type of goiter can be almost entirely controlled by a tiny amount of iodine in table salt. But thus far, Congress has rejected a law (such as Canada has) requiring all table salt in interstate commerce to be iodized...