Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rode through untouched. A five-man, full-time civilian commission would have complete and sweeping powers over every phase of atomic research, production, engineering and application. A military liaison committee, a nine-man advisory board of civilians appointed by the President, and a bi-partisan congressional committee would act as a check and conscience on the operations of the Atomic Commission. The whole bill was geared to mesh with any future international control adopted...
...almost unknown for ten more years. He made no important speeches; he introduced no legislation. He fought sickness (he walked on his toes because the jarring of his heels caused him pain), studied banking and monetary problems. Finally at 55 (in 1913) he wrote the Federal Reserve Act, proved himself politician and orator as well as thinker by engineering its passage through Congress...
Once during debate on the bill his backers cried: "Blast him, Carter! Dynamite him!" "Why," he asked softly, "use dynamite when insect powder will do?" One corner of his mouth curled up when he talked. Said Woodrow Wilson: "Carter snarled the Federal Reserve Act through Congress out of one side of his mouth. Think what he would have done with both sides." In 1918, Wilson made him Secretary of the Treasury. Finally, in 1920, at the age of 62, he went to the Senate...
...peoples of the democracies, and weak nations (which eventually would have to choose sides if the titans should split) could find hope in one thought: that however gruff and bluff nations may act in a serious dispute, they can often reach a settlement at the eleventh hour when they have tested each other's intentions. But it was about quarter to eleven...
Except for a first-rate circus act and one or two amusing scenes, all the showmanship of Around the World is in the staging. There is something pretty empty and amateurish about the show. It falls down as burlesque, displaying far too little wit and far too much Welles...