Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roxas and José Laurel wrote and signed the Philippine puppet constitution, which with the organization of the puppet republic constituted an act of rebellion against...
Domestic troubles would not stay down. He had an urgent problem to meet: the railroad strike threatened for this week. The President took the immediate heat off it by invoking the Railway Labor Act, appointing an emergency fact-finding board. But he resisted heavy pressures to intervene in the 16-week-old General Motors strike (see below). Following through on his plan to see labor leaders regularly, he talked long and (he reported) pleasantly with John L. Lewis and the A.F. of L.'s Carpenters' William L. Hutcheson...
...face of the earth.'. . . Men may fail to repent of their evil and may thus bring suffering and disaster upon themselves. Yet Christians will stand firm in the faith that God's purposes will ultimately prevail. Knowing that with God all things are possible, let us act boldly and confidently for a world order based on brotherhood, freedom and justice...
...other nations. The maintenance of land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be authorized." Prime Minister Shidehara and the Tokyo press called on other nations to follow Japan down the sawdust trail. Said Asahi importantly: "World peace cannot be maintained by the unilateral act of Japan alone...
...fellow, and seems an even greater one by contrast-fair as a star when only one is shining in a show. He repeats his floppy Wizard of Oz scarecrow dance; he wickedly burlesques ballroom dancers; and in the show's and the season's most fetching solo act, he does a perfect soft-shoe routine while poking delightful...