Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most lucrative breakfast-table act: ABC's Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald, who gross $1,900 a week...
...legend still persists that a radio station is some kind of an art center ... then [our] first official act . . . should be to list it along with the local dairies, laundries, banks, restaurants and filling stations...
Speaking in the New Lecture Hall will be Mike Monroney, Representative from Oklahoma; Thomas Finletter, author of "Can Representative Government Do The Job"; Arthur Holcombe '06, professor of Government; and Roland Young, author of "This is Congress." Jerome L. Rappaport 1L, the president of the Forum will act as moderator for the meeting...
Congressional emasculation of the much-debated draft act has provided the world with the year's best example of electioneering and buck-passing. Despite repeated pleas by President Truman and General Eisenhower for Congressional support of our world-wide commitments, the House of Representatives has apparently decided that reelection is more important than reconstruction...
...experts, headed by General Eisenhower, have stated unequivocally that the present demand can be filled only by Selective Service. Yet the Representatives choose to listen to their campaign managers rather than their conscience. The exemption of 18 to 20 year-olds from the draft would in itself reduce the act to impotency, because the drafting of 18-year-olds since 1943 has already caught men now in their early 20's. The substitution of recruiting for the draft will not remove the objections to an adolescent occupation force. If the volunteers are to be men over 21, they will still...