Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen with stony faces and beards, listened carefully and thoughtfully applauded...
...Showing. Harry Truman, who is never happier than when he is off on the old political two-a-day himself, was in bubbling spirits. On Labor Day, he had tried out his act again for the first time since last fall, and it was still the unchallenged best on the political boards...
...carefully discussed the beauties of the Brannan Plan (high prices for farmers, low prices for workers, the bill to be footed by taxes). Republicans, who had all but forgotten how good the Truman act was, suddenly began clearing their throats, eyeing the future nervously and taking practice jogs to loosen their political muscles...
...moving speech he warned the delegates against totalitarian power grabs. He recalled the March 1933 meeting of the Reichstag, which voted the infamous enabling act handing Hitler his dictatorial powers. At this, an interrupting cry came from the extreme left, behind the kettledrums. It was Max Reimann, Communist Parteiführer of Western Germany and one of the 15 representatives of his party in the Bundestag: "How many delegates here voted...
...arrival in China's Communist capital was the big act in an intensive Communist drive to win friends for Soviet Russia. She is chairman of the new Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, now getting top play in China's Communist press...