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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Refused to enact a House rider to the $1.2 billion Labor Department and Federal Security Agency appropriations for 1946-47. The rider, which would have withdrawn the protection of the Wagner Act from thousands of U.S. packinghouse and agricultural workers, was sent to a joint Senate-House committee for further discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Work Done | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...made an extraordinary difference in his life. When he decided to give a reception for Dona Amelia de Orleans e Braganga, mother of Don Duarte Nufio, the pretender to Portugal's throne, his advisers suggested that the Countess de la Seca, a widow with two young children, should act as hostess. When the Countess took over the flower arrangement for the party, Salazar was so impressed by her taste that he wrote her a short note. She replied with a long letter and Salazar asked permission to call on her. The Countess received him at tea. Since then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: How Bad Is the Best? | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

Although there are no more available openings for oarsmen, the crew coach emphasized the need for small men to act as coxwains. He pointed out that acting as the "slavedriver" of a husky bunch of sweep devotees was perhaps the only way for small men to win their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Landlubbers Leave Leviathan for Lives of Oarsmen in Shell-Barges | 7/19/1946 | See Source »

...rubies, and waits fifteen years before returning to the scene, having acquired a moustache and a new, naive, wealthy British wife in the interim, to continue his search for the gems. Since the entire scheme, and a broad hint as to the outcome, are brought out in the first act, it takes worthy performances by the murderer and his unsuspecting wife, who is being methodically driven out of her mind by her spouse, to sustain the terror and suspense in Hamilton's lines...

Author: By I. M. H., | Title: The Playgoer | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...Christian name, so as not to compromise papal authority) and returned to the diocesan tribunals for a second pleading. Once again the postulators and devil's advocates examine the Servant of God's writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites find that the Servant of God was not just an extremely virtuous person but practiced in "heroic degree" the Seven Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First U.S. Saint | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

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