Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lack of centralization of command on the labor problem is the chief difficulty in handing the question, Herter said. Irresponsible strikes must be controlled, the Wagner Act revised to apply only to employer-employee cases, and internal operations of unions must be made public if things are to go on a sound basis. Such changes are not designed as a tough policy, but only to control the injustice of present laws...
Emphasizing the many unfavorable aspects of embassy life, Maddox conceded that the Service has been improved, strengthened, and expanded by the Foreign Service Act of 1946, but cautioned that it is by no means "a career of exciting infrigne, purple romance, and glamorous social life...
...recent executive act, completely and irrevocably throwing Wilson Wyatt's program into the presidential ashcan, makes even more pressing the crystallizing of public sentiment on this vital issue," Karson said...
Dazed by such astronomical sums, businessmen feel that they are being unfairly penalized, that the Wages & Hours Act was not intended to cover such cases. As the suits piled up, they fervently hoped that one of the first things Congress does is to find a way to keep them from losing their shirts...
...thinking. Madison, on the other hand, suddenly personifies not only the Will-of-the-People but also True Love. As the wife of Secretary of State Madison, Dolly (Ginger), looking far too regal ever to have been Fred Astaire's hoofing partner, sweeps into the White House to act as widower President Jefferson's official hostess. There the film leaves her-happily rehearsing her future role as the nation's real First Lady...