Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME Correspondent Dave Richardson cabled: "Calcutta's three millions will take some time to be convinced that terrorism is really over. They act as though they had been through a terrific bombing and expect another soon. Nine out of ten business houses and shops which survived plundering are still closed tightly...
Determined to strike a deal with the U.S., President Juan Domingo Peron ordered his stooges in Congress to ratify the 1945 hemispheric Act of Chapultepec* and the United Nations Charter too). That made it word-eating week in Argentina...
...alienation of affections, two years after his wife divorced him. Mrs. Reid Bronson, the ex-mother-in-law, retorted that Dilling had "lured" her daughter by "claiming he was heir to ... $100,000 . . . and would take her to ... a Swiss chalet." Mother Dilling managed to get into the act. Said she: "It's all a New Deal smear...
Russian Communists believe that cartels are the ultimate and inevitable form of modern economic development, and that trustbusting laws like the U.S. Sherman Act are in fact reactionary. They denounce other people's cartels not for economic but for political reasons. Last week, news came from Germany that the Red Army had quietly organized the biggest cartel in history, prepared to do big business with western Europe...
Eight bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church gathered together last week for the sacred act of laying on of hands. The place: All-Saints-by-the-Sea in Santa Barbara, Calif. The occasion: the first consecration in the U.S. of an Oriental bishop. Episcopal bishops are usually consecrated in cathedrals, but China-born Rt. Rev. Quentin K. Y. Huang, who studied for the ministry in the U.S., had deliberately chosen the tiny (300 communicants) church at Santa Barbara. Reason: for several years it had been the only guaranteed source of financial support for relief work he directed in China...