Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cent. He stayed balky until it was too late to prevent walkouts in all major U.S. ports, then gave in with bad grace. There was an untidy rash of local stoppages which lasted until the seven unions involved could get their scattered locals to ratify the deal. Last to act were Bridges' longshoremen. After all, the deal covers them only until September 30, when their contract expires, and they can threaten to strike again...
...pageant, explained by Van Lennep, includes two scenes which depict, the early life of the University-one commencement ceremony in which President Dunster hands out the first degrees, and another "gay 90s" act, featuring crew, football, and baseball squads. And the pageant committee, of which Mr. Van Lennep is a member, wants some Harvard men to volunteer to help in these two scenes...
...usual, the Communists scored a news beat; Chou announced the agreement at an American Embassy cocktail party. Next day Chiang gave it substance by ordering his generals to hold "all advances, attacks and pursuits." Chiang took another step toward conciliation. He proposed that Marshall be empowered to act as supreme arbiter in all Communist-Nationalist disputes. Chou hedged: "We've trusted Marshall, but to trust him and to give him arbitrary power are two different things." In Marshall's personal plane Chou took the proposal to Yenan where Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung was deciding whether...
Cheers & Boos. The next act in the show was the drive to the Casa Rosada, between blue & white striped Argentine flags springing from Buenos Aires' handsome, grey stone buildings. The packed throngs, who saw Perón as a modern knight in the shining armor of socialistic endeavor, shouted "Perón! Perón!" again and again. The diplomats, too, got cheers -except Yanqui George S. Messersmith, who got boos and whistles. (Foreign Minister Juan Atilio Bramuglia next day called at the U.S. Embassy to apologize for his countrymen...
...veto will force the Congress to act quickly. With only ten working days left before the agency expires on June 30, Presidential courage will force the boys on the Hill to pass a simple resolution extending OPA without crippling change. The Solons obviously do not dare let OPA die completely; rent controls, for example, are not so much as touched in either House or Senate bill. The time for haggling is growing short, and a ringing Presidential veto message will throw the blame and the responsibility exactly where they belong-in the spacious laps of a captious Congress...