Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the delay in London were such fundamental questions as juridical responsibility of heads-of-state and their higher subordinates, and whether the act of aggressive war should be considered a crime in itself. But narrower legal points had accounted for most of the recent discussion. Example: should the indictments be short (Anglo-American practice), or an almost complete statement of the prosecution's case (Continental practice)? A French expert described the resulting compromise: "A Continental lawyer looking at the document will object because it is based on Saxon law; a Saxon lawyer will claim it's based...
...17th Governor General of Canada since Confederation, his wife (the former Lady Margaret Diana Bingham) and three children will move into Rideau Hall, the spacious Governor General's residence at Rockcliffe, a suburb of Ottawa. He will represent King George VI in Canada, and like the King, will act only on the advice of the Government. He will be expected to remain aloof from politics. Quiet, self-effacing Field Marshal Alexander was reported to be the choice of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...radical Apra party, socialists and a handful of Communists and near-fascists into the victorious National Democratic Front. Now his problem is to hold them together while pushing through his social-reform program. The first test might well come this week when Congress (dominated by the Apristas) meets to act on Bustamante's program...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
...first U.S. Army chaplain, appointed under an act of Congress in 1791, was General Washington's good friend the Rev. John Hurt of Virginia, "a fearless man and an ardent patriot." By an act of the Continental Congress in 1775, to which the Army Chaplains' Corps now traces its origin, he had served as a chaplain throughout the Revolution...