Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might have been worse: the U.S. might have felt no responsibility, no sense of personal implication, in these devilish complications. But whatever else could be said, the U.S. felt uneasy in its conscience. Americans knew that if the U.S. did not remember its old faith, and act accordingly, there would be the Devil...
With a big smile and 18 brown wood pens with stub steel nibs (which he passed out to friends), Harry S. Truman signed the Employment Act of 1946. It was only a shadow of the original "full employment" bill, which contained Government assurance of a job to everybody who wanted one. But it might still, with luck, become almost as important as Harry Truman seemed to consider...
...Hong Kong. If the mutiny should spread among them, Britain's weakened voice in the world's councils would scarcely be able to whisper. The Army remained quiescent, but even trusted veterans were attending secret meetings of extreme nationalist groups. The British Government would have to act fast...
Moreover, Catholic University has been producing plays for less than eight years. Yet in that time it has attracted most of Broadway's and Hollywood's bigwigs to its productions. It has tempted such performers as Sara Allgood, Dorothy McGuire, Florence Reed, Robert Speaight to act in them. It has had offers to broadcast over every big network and is now getting offers to televise. It has tried out shows for Gilbert Miller and declined to try them out for Arthur Hopkins. It has seen its homemade "musical biography" of George M. Cohan lead to a smash movie...
Quick, Cheap, Painless. Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act was designed to make bankruptcy a quick, cheap, financially painless procedure for the debtor. It turned out to be none of these for the original security holders. As a basis for a railroad's reorganization, the Interstate Commerce Commission has had to make long-range forecasts of the road's earnings. ICC had warned that it could not do this, proved it by guessing wrong on at least nine roads...