Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
There is sufficient evidence to convince most undergraduates that the Dean's refusal was not merely malicious nor an act of narrow censorship. There did appear a lack of judgment and sympathy with the legitimate operation of a student activity. Unless the Faculty committee concerned defines its position more clearly and makes provision for the wise use of its powers at all times, it may find that the fair name of Harvard entrusted to it has been needlessly splotched...
Under the leadership of Maurice C. Benewitiz '47, chairman of the Harvard Affairs Committee of the Liberal Union, the group had obtained a five day permit to operate the booth, and since the City Manager's act on Tuesday, they have been actively investigating their rights in the matter. Along with the effort to get telegrams and postcards sent, they had been distributing a flyer around the Square calling attention to the booth and urging people to take part in a buyer's strike against higher prices...
...puppet commissions before Roxas had heard of them. He resisted attempts to take him to Tokyo, but he did accept the chairmanship of a Laurel food-gathering commission-on the condition that "the Japanese do not get one grain of rice." And he helped write the puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion of collaboration upon him. What critics did not know was that the constitution read almost word for word like the U.S. Constitution, and that its jumpy, slippery author was the coordinator and spark of the all-important U.S. espionage in Manila...
Without the $620 million the U.S. has promised the Philippines for war damages, reparations, public works and the purchase of U.S. surplus property, the newest and poorest nation on earth could never hope to outlive its first free month. Without the Bell Act, which the U.S. Congress passed April 30, it could probably not last a year. This act gives the Philippines eight years of free trade with the U.S., then 20 years during which tariffs will be upped gradually until they are in line with the rest of U.S. tariff policy. It will be a mighty crutch...