Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Truman still spoke reasonably, but the people around the table with him paid him little heed. As his troubles piled around him like cars in a hopeless traffic jam, he got little help from the people, none from Congress -e.g., in such matters as the inequalities of the Wagner Act. Perhaps the concept of the political elite was growing. In Washington one Government labor adviser said: "The only solution to the coal strike is federal seizure, and then let the Government hand the miners and operators a contract." Other extremists, including Socialists with an eye to the future, proposed nationalization...
Labor had sometimes suspected that one of these days Britain's peers might again itch to extend their legislative hand and block Laborite bills passed by the House of Commons. Last week it almost happened. The Lords were considering the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act when Lord Merthyr, a former artillery major, boldly suggested an amendment that would substantially change the bill. Said he: "I submit that the functions of your lordships' House should be allowed to continue as they were intended to continue ... [or] is this House really merely an assembly for dotting...
...Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's least known operas is Tsar Saltan. A skip-along scherzo in its second act has become one of the inevitable pieces in any violinist's repertory: Flight of the Bumblebee. Last week Rimsky-Korsakov's little earsore was a strong jukebox nickel-puller, helped by a steady left-hand beat, and a new name: Bumble Boogie...
Enter Ferrer, a rare genius in the American theatre. This is the man who made Margaret Webster's Othello with his real and living Iago. He has at least equalled that triumph with Cyrano. This character, plagued by an obscene nose, must be "all things." After the first act, Ferrer makes the spectator forget that nose. Declaiming with high spirit, he leaves the audience gasping at the arched flight of his slick patter. He is meant to be a swashbuckler, and Ferrer gives it everything as he swaggers and gesticulates in the mixed role of philosopher, poet, soldier, and self...
...draft act was within six days of expiring when Majority Leader Barkley rose in the indifferent Senate to make a point: the seizure section of the Smith-Connally anti-strike law, being an amendment to the draft act, would die too, and with it the President's power to seize the coal mines...