Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year since V-E day not a single entertainer, other than a D.P., had put on his act in any of the 333 D.P. camps. Last week the Yiddish theater's Molly Picon, saucer-eyed "idol of the East Side," and Jacob Kalich, her husband, the "Ziegfeld of Second Avenue," sailed from Manhattan for Europe to change all that...
Their plan: a summer swing through D.P. camps in France, Belgium, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Italy, Switzerland. Their act: a septilingual* song-&-story routine...
...most powerful group of its size in the Senate, the bloc gains most of its punch from a loose partnership with the Farm bloc. In 1878, it maneuvered an act through Congress which required the Treasury to support the silver market in the U.S. at a price high enough to hand western mining interests a substantial subsidy. Then followed more than a half century of special-privilege legislation, culminating in the Silver Purchase Act of 1934. This bill required the Treasury to buy silver until its holdings equaled 25% of the U.S. monetary reserves, or until the price reached...
...wrecked the War Labor Board, as he had wrecked the Mediation Board. In return for only the smallest of gains he brought down upon his head once more the wrath of Congress. It was a blunder. More than any other man, John Lewis was responsible for the Smith-Connally Act, the boomerang labor law which Congress passed in an effort to curb...
...John L. stopped pacing. He knew exactly what his next move was to be. He recognized his cues. The Senate had voted overwhelmingly to take up the anti-labor Case bill. The Senators were in a mood to legislate something even stronger than the Smith-Connally act. Lewis did not want that...