Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this writing I am stationed on an island in the Philippine group preparatory to leaving for the States. ... On what basis can anyone condone the act of the British and Dutch in the recent killing of natives, who revolted against the Imperial troops in Java...
...Labor had agreed on the principle of collective bargaining. This was the issue which broke up the 1919 conference. But in A.D. 1945, boasting that all delegates agreed on collective bargaining was like announcing that the conference, eight years after the Supreme Court, had declared the Wagner Act constitutional...
...Enterprise. "The resolution," boomed Mr. Lewis, "seeks to perpetuate Government control of prices, profits and the fixation of wages. ... I am opposed to labor's being required to bargain collectively within these limits. I want free enterprise and free collective bargaining. Free enterprise and free competition have acted in the past and will act in the future as a brake on profits and will bring lowered costs to the consumer...
...bill made its points firmly: 1) the President would appoint and Congress would confirm the UNO delegate (probably earnest, white-topped Edward R. Stettinius Jr., to whom the job has long been promised); 2) the delegate, with ambassadorial rank, would act only on presidential order, never on his own initiative; 3) the President would be empowered, through his delegate and without asking Congress, to send a limited number of U.S. troops anywhere...
...either their power or their duty in the field of government to any section of the community. . . . When you select people to enter into the study and research of these things, and they know of and have, indeed, entered into an understanding to observe not only the Official Secrets Act but the honor of their own country, then that ought to be observed and respected in carrying out their duty...