Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral William F. Halsey finally rang down the curtain on his vaudeville act about riding the Mikado's white horse: after all, Hirohito's personal belongings were still his. The saddle sent by Reno would go to the U.S. Naval Academy museum, unless Reno wanted...
...sensible spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars: "Soldiers don't want any special privileges. They don't want to hold their jobs while persons with long experience, possibly World War I veterans, are laid off. We want a fair break, but nothing unreasonable. Congress must act quickly...
Less Competition. Selective Service won hands down. Said the court, in awarding Fishgold back pay for the time laid off: "Congress had in mind [the re-employment clause in the Selective Service Act] that the returning veteran should have one year to rehabilitate himself . . . free of competition with fellow employes. The veteran . . . shall be employed . . . even if it means that a non-veteran will not work." The Selective Service Act, it added, abrogates any security clauses in union contracts...
More Light. There was little doubt, said unionists, that the question of veterans' rights was a "mess." Nor were employers, wide open to lawsuits, from both unions and veterans, better off. What was needed, they all agreed, was clarification of the Selective Service Act by Congress before its ambiguities set unions brawling with job-hunting veterans...
...needs of his own family and the burning of the barn of a prosperous neighbor (Morris Carnovsky) give him bigger and better ideas. His somewhat selfish daughter (Margaret O'Brien) loves a calf named Elizabeth, but her neighbor's misfortune inspires her to give up Elizabeth-an act which dissolves the whole countryside in similar generosity. One glowing convert is a city-bred schoolteacher (Frances Gifford), who not only learns to love the rural life that first appalled her with its narrowness but even comes to accept the rather expansive view that one must be tolerant toward intolerance...