Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mess it was: of the 22 recommendations Harry Truman had made since September 6, only four had been acted upon. They were 1) the Government Reorganization Bill, 2) a much-watered-down version of the Full Employment Bill, 3) extension of the War Powers Act (by the House only), 4) return of the U.S. Employment Service to state administration by mid-April, 1946 (the President had wanted to keep control of USES until June...
...just been talking to the prosecuting attorney. "When Nano asked me to come back, I am afraid," she said. "I am afraid that I am so ignorant that I will not to able to act like they do in the United States. I cried and told Nano that he could go back alone. But Nano told me, 'I will take care of you like you took care of me.' So I came to America...
...Interval of Reflection. "Perhaps all men, by the very act of being barn, are destined to suffer violence; yet this is a truth to which circumstance shuts men's eyes. The strong are, as a matter of fact, never absolutely strong, nor are the weak absolutely weak, but neither is aware of this. They have in common a refusal to believe that they both belong to the same species: the weak see no relation between themselves and the strong, and vice versa. The man who is the possessor of force seems to walk through a non-resistant element...
...Hence we see men in arms behaving harshly and madly. We see their sword bury itself in the breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them...
...Plan. By contrast, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles's whacking of N.A.M. for its drive to end price controls by Feb. 15 seemed almost a caress. The U.S., said Bowles, had saved $66 billion by not modifying the Price Control Act, as N.A.M. had suggested 18 months ago. N.A.M.'s demand that controls be lifted now, when inflation pressure is at its greatest, "is a risky, reckless, gambling policy which in all likelihood would produce a national disaster...