Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anticipated answers like these, but it was important to have them first hand. As you know, we have been supplying our Occupation forces in Germany with copies of TIME all along, but we could not sell to Germans under the provisions of the Trading With the Enemy Act. U.S. Occupation officers indicated that it would help them if Germans could get TIME, too. After negotiations with the U.S. War Department, which administers the Act, and with the State Department, the latter licensed us to do business in occupied Germany. Our license allows us to sell TIME to Germans provided...
...mark-and reflected the will of the people in the process. By its clamor to bring the boys home it forced a nervous War Department to pull down its Army: it buried a universal-military-training law under the woodshed; it stripped away the strength of the Draft Act...
...ledger has its brighter side. Working conditions have improved considerably. First of all, there is no unemployment in Great Britain today. Of equal importance is the government-sponsored Factory Act which has greatly reduced the number of hours worked per week. All workers must have one hour for lunch--and tea is now served twice daily...
...Student Council. It is in our own personal and collective interest to further the strength of such an organ. I believe everyone at Harvard has a stake in the democracy of the only agency representing the student body. However, to "democratize" the Council would in itself be an empty act; a renovated Council must set out in an active, forthright manner to meet the needs facing students at Harvard in 1946. With this in mind Harvard AVC has named a representative for the proposed investigating committee. Robert L. Koehl '44, Chairman, Student Activities Committee, Harvard Chapter...
...high command of the Giulian Communist Party is the U.A.L.S. (Italo-Slovene Union of Anti-Fascists), a small inner-sanctum group whose chief strategist is Professor Oscar Ferlan. He concedes that Tito's Government is a dictatorship, but claims: "In Trieste as in Yugoslavia, the minority must act for the good of the majority...