Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt proposal was made in his message vetoing the Smith-Connally anti-strike bill, later passed over his veto. The Roosevelt language: "I recommend that the Selective Service Act be amended so that persons may be inducted into noncombat military service up to the age of 65 years. This will enable us to induct into military service all persons who engage in strikes or Stoppages or other interruptions of work in plants in possession of the United States...
...Foremen could join or form unions but could not be recognized as bargaining agents under the Wagner Act...
...Security Council was trying hard, but it was getting nowhere at all on the two ticklish cases before it-Iran and Spain. Both cases turned on the extent to which the Council could act on the "internal affairs" of nations. The Russians thought the Council could go as far as it liked on Spain; the U.S. and Britain thought not. The Western powers thought the Council ought to know what was going on in Iran; Moscow couldn...
...system still lives in Los Angeles, though he was retired from the U.C.L.A. faculty nearly two years ago. ("I was 70. The actual age of retirement is 65, but they made an exception. But even so ... I could have gone on; it was cruel.") He is finishing the last act of an opera about "Aaron as the statesman and Moses the philosopher," which he laid aside in 1932 because he got out of the mood. In the next five years he intends to complete five books, two of them on counterpoint. He usually has about eight pupils, each of whom...
...trouble was that Evan Evans took Beautee commercials as seriously as "the fifth act of Hamlet.'" "There's no damn difference between soaps," he told Vic frankly. "Except for perfume and color, soap is soap. . . . [The] difference is in the selling and advertising, [and] two things make good advertising. One, a good simple idea. Two, repetition. And by repetition, by God, I mean until the public is so irritated with it, they'll buy your brand because they bloody well can't forget it. All you professional men are scared to death of raping the public...