Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President's plan was based on the Railway Labor Disputes Act, which has worked successfully to stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President's orders. The commission would have power to subpoena all books and records; it would report directly to the President...
UNESCO, Sigma XI hopes, will be a coordinating, rather than an operating group, planned to simplify the fraternity of specialists in diverse fields and to act as a body for the study of educational and allied problems on behalf of international cooperation. The UNESCO charter, as yet unaccepted by Congress, is promulgated to allow science and education to keep pace with the general trend toward international unity...
...House Expenditures subcommittee struck all "assurance" of jobs from the President's full employment bill, cut out his right to submit an annual job budget. Amid all the nays and maybes, the one House Judiciary Committee "yea" (extending the Second War Powers Act for six months from Dec. 31) sounded faint indeed. But Harry Truman was mighty glad to hear...
...Wagner: Act III, Die Walkure (Helen Traubel, Herbert Janssen, Irene Jessner and vocal ensemble from the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 16 sides). Victor recorded Act I in Vienna, Act II in Berlin. Now Columbia finishes the job. The Met's mighty Brunnhilde comes through a good yo-ho above everyone else. Performance: good...
...weeks ago a 5/ to 6/ per pound increase in butter prices to consumers was allowed in order to eliminate a subsidy." He concluded: the subsidy "will solve nothing. . . . Why should coffee producers sell coffee when they are on notice that after June 30, when the Price Control Act expires, they will be able to operate in a free market...