Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What about the Supreme Court appointments? No comment, the President said. Could the President give a slight hint? No comment. Could the President say when he would act...
...Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
Bogging down in dialogue midway in the second act, "Laura" stagnates because the characters describe rather than do anything. Otto Kruger's Waldo Lydecker, who, in his own words, "sprang from the womb with an epigram on my lips," is too amusing, turning what should have been a taut mystery into a second rate Phillip Barry drawing room comedy incidentally concerned with murder. "Laura's" John Dalton climax, so successful in the film, is inexplicably greeted by laughs in the play: the change in medium has somehow twisted the playwright's intentions...
...when the House was voting on the draft act, one Congressman shouted an unnerving question at his colleagues: "Have you heard from Reuben? What does Reuben think...
...last week, Treanor had seen enough to act. He was not sure whether the boom in new stocks was caused by 1) the bull market (which brokers said it was), or 2) fiscal magic. If magic, he knew how the trick was worked. Many an issue was "sold out" early on the day of issue because underwriting firms and their broker-retailers had placed shares in the accounts of partners or employes, or in the firm's own trading account. When the public heard the issue was sold out, they were convinced it was a good buy, so they...