Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emergency Council struck back by barring distribution of all copies of the Jester to which were not stapled a mimeographed letter expounding the Emergency Council's position and deprecating the stand of the humor magazine. This act, along with that of the student government in naming the editors of the Spectator, is generally regarded as being without precedent in the recent history of Ivy League colleges...
...nationalization of the Bank of England, the nationalization of the coal mines "as part of a concerted plan for the coordination of the fuel and power industries," the extension of social insurance, the establishment of a national health service, the repeal of the Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act (which in effect bars general strikes...
...carpenter's unlettered son, he was a shoemaker and a farm hand before emigrating (as so many French Canadians have done) to the cotton mills of New England. Then, in 1870, he sought to enter the Congregation of the Holy Cross at Montreal. The fathers let him act as porter and unofficial barber of their college, and called him Brother Andre...
Almost lost in the flood of last week's news was the announcement that Alvin Harvey Hansen, Harvard's New Dealish, free-wheeling Lucius N. Littauer professor of political economy, will no longer act as consultant to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...
...letter of regret, U.S. Steel President Benjamin F. Fairless made it plain why Big Steel 'was abandoning the war baby it had built for the Government in 1941. Prime reason was a provision in the Surplus Property Act which provides that Government metals plants costing more than $5,000,000 may not be lease;! for more than five years, nor leased with an option to buy. A five-year lease was not good enough for U.S. Steel for two reasons: 1) Geneva is still an unsettled financial property-to make Geneva a postwar moneymaker will take about $70 million...