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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian spy melodrama labored into the last act. Five months after it started to probe the cloak & dagger activities of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, the Royal Commission on Espionage last week summed it all up in a fourth and final report. All told, it had uncloaked 17 Soviet Embassy officials, and charged them with spying in Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Red Rings | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...kept pinup girls all over the walls of their barracks-like religious icons. They idealized women, but, when they walked the streets of Paris, many of them would be drunk and would leer at and insult almost every woman they met. American boys are virginal, for only virgins would act that way. They liked the German women. When they made love to German women, the German women did all the work, like cows they did all the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...Opera (Sun. 7 p.m., Mutual). The third act of Puccini's La Bohème, in English. Thomas Scherman conducting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Under the Silver Purchase Act of 1934, the Treasury must buy silver until its holdings equal 25% of federal monetary reserves, or until the price reaches $1.29 an ounce. But the Treasury has been able to sell silver only if the Silver Bloc is willing. For the last six months the Bloc has not been willing because Congress was not willing to boost the price of silver. Result: silver has been so scarce that the PhotoEngravers Board of Trade of New York went so far as to melt silver dollars to get silver for industrial uses (photographic plates, solder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Men Are Here Again | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

Millionaire "Socialist." Altgeld's bravest, best-known act as governor of Illinois was his pardon, in 1893, of three labor leaders jailed for complicity in Chicago's Haymarket bombing seven years earlier.* For this he was damned far & wide as a "Socialist," a "wild-haired demagogue." Robert Todd Lincoln, President Lincoln's only surviving son, rose at a Harvard alumni banquet to beg all good Harvard men to "stand firm in the midst of such dangers in the republic." The press screamed that the Governor was encouraging "anarchy, rapine and the overthrow of civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Altgeld of Illinois | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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