Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Churchill always speaks either extemporaneously or from very full notes. His last experience at speaking from half notes occurred many years ago in a House of Commons debate on a Trade Disputes Act. He recounts it as a warning to young public speakers: "I reached my resounding peroration with the words, 'So, it only remains for those who-.' I peered at my notes, only to discover that I had failed to write down who they were and what it remained for them to do. In the hope that necessity would mother invention, I repeated with great emphasis...
Said Young: "Wall Street, under the Truth in Securities Act, is quite different from the old Wall Street. Business, having found that it pays to be honest, might well insist that Pennsylvania Avenue follow its example...
...What we need today is a Truth in Politics Act to match the Truth in Securities Act, clause for clause...
Some Young points for such an Act...
...annual reports and proxies were filled with broken promises and half truths, the Truth in Securities Act would have got me if the Common...