Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Interior Secretary "Cap" Krug had signed with Lewis last spring, after a 59-day strike, seemed foolproof. The Stars & Stripes flew over the 3,300 soft coal mines manned by U.M.W. miners. They could not strike against the Government. There was a law against it -the Smith-Connally Act...
...nine days. Whether or not the miners would pay any attention to the injunction remained to be seen (at week's end, 32,000 had already walked out). If the injunction failed to stop Lewis, the Government would have but one move left-to invoke the Smith-Connally Act, and see if it could be enforced...
...President, even though he was vacationing in Florida, stood squarely behind his Attorney General. There were indications that Harry Truman had thrown all political ambitions to the winds and decided to be just a good President for the next two years (see The Presidency). If so, he could act with complete freedom and courage. In this battle, Harry Truman unquestionably had the people behind him. He had read the election returns. It remained to be seen whether John L. had also...
...Reading is carried, Richard, the clerks write some words in Norman French upon it and it is sent along the passage to the House of Lords. There it goes through precisely the same process. ... After the King-or his representatives-gives Le Roy le veult . . . the Bill becomes an Act of Parliament, and those clever people who have for so long been saying 'Why don't you do something?' now unite to say 'Why ever did you do that...
Magic Pellets. Schaefer's cloud-poisoning act was the fruit of long, careful experiment. After much research, he learned how to turn the trick in miniature. First he cooled the air in a laboratory cold chamber (rather like a deep-freeze cabinet) to about 5° below zero, Fahrenheit. He breathed into the chamber and his breath condensed to fog. He made a magic pass with a single pellet of dry ice. The fog cleared, and glittering snowflakes drifted on to the chamber's floor. From this point it was easy to expand the process to full, outdoor...