Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are some 4,000 East Indians in the U.S. now. Of these, about 3,000 who arrived before the 1924 Immigration Act will be eligible for citizenship under the new law. Of the remainder, 360 are U.S. citizens by birth; others are temporary visitors as students, tourists or businessmen like Singh (a Manhattan importer...
Thundered Azerbaijan: "Having achieved their democratic freedom . . . our people not only refuse to wear such clothes, but also consider those who trade in them traitors who act against the interests of national industries. Everybody must try to use the homemade goods so that our nation can stand apart from the coming world crisis. We repeat that Azerbaijanis detest and despise the secondhand clothes of others...
Chuck Luckman ended this rout by plunking out $25,000 to help the druggists lobby the Miller-Tydings Fair Trade Act through Congress. He put in his own form of price control, retaining title to the tubes until they were actually retailed. Then Luckman went on the road to make friends with individual druggists all over the U.S. (he traveled in 51 of his first 52 weeks), learned to call 35,000 druggists by their first names. Result: sales started up. By 1942 Pepsodent was leading the field for the first time. It has never been headed since...
...decision the court held: the Selective Service Act "guarantees the veteran against loss of position or loss of seniority by reason of his absence. . . . He steps back on the seniority escalator at the precise point he would have occupied had he kept his position continuously during the war. . . . But we would distort the language of these provisions if we read it as granting the veteran an increase in seniority over what he would have had if he had never entered the armed services...
...Love Me? (20th Century-Fox) is a tuneful, lushly colored, handsomely dressed, unusually foolish musical. Its three chief actors: popular Trumpeter Harry James, who makes hardly any pretense at acting but blurts his trumpet often enough and loud enough to please even his most insatiable fans ; popular Crooner Dick Haymes, who tears off a pretty love song with such little apparent effort that there's no good reason why he should be required to act at all; red-haired Maureen O'Hara, who photographs so beautifully in Technicolor that no one could possibly care a hang whether...