Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good faith of the House was promptly tested and proved. Speaker Martin crushed an attempt by one of his own party, New York's professorial W. Sterling Cole, to upset the streamlined rules provided in the La Follette-Monroney Reorganization Act. It was a good omen. The new rules stand; House committees are cut from...
...Luxury Lovers. Last week's action did peel off (as of July 1) the top layer of taxes on luxury goods, amusements, communications and railway berths -taxes which have cost U.S. citizens an annual $1.2 billion since they were slapped on by the 1943 wartime Revenue Act. Chiefly this was a New Year's present to luxury-loving Americans...
Most importantly, perhaps, the proclamation ended the President's power to seize private property under the Smith-Connally act. Termination of the act means that the Government can no longer take over a strike-bound plant as a means of settling a labor dispute. And six months hence, the Government must get out of any private industry it is now operating: e.g., the soft coal mines and the Great Lakes tugs...
...same time General Mark W. Clark, who has carried out U.S. policy in Austria in fact as well as title, got a new assistant, Lieut. General Geoffrey Keyes. After the Austrian treaty discussions in Moscow next March, where Clark will act as deputy for Secretary of State Byrnes, Keyes will succeed Clark in Vienna...
...years ago the Navy picked up an idea which Inventor Douglas F. Winnek had been working on since 1932. Winnek uses a camera with a lens wider than the distance between the human eyes, and takes his pictures on a special film covered with tiny, transparent ridges. These act somewhat like lenses...