Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances were that the U.S., Britain and other western powers would act together. Britain's Lord Wright, chairman of the willing but impotent United Nations War Crimes Commission, said that he still hoped for Russian cooperation. But he added: ". . . At the moment it cannot be said that this is an immediate practicable matter...
...Road to Serfdom. "There is to be one state to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. This state is to be arch-employer, arch-planner, arch-administrator and ruler and arch-caucus boss. How is an ordinary citizen or subject of the King to stand up against this formidable machine, which, once it is in power, will prescribe for every one of them where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say, what views they are to hold and within what limits they...
Chaplain Myers believes that his plain speaking should act as a challenge to churchmen: "There is no need for our churches to fear the truth. Frankness in this matter is not against the war effort, and it isn't expected of churches that they should surrender their idealism. We should understand now, before the great discharge of soldiers begins, that foxholes are not now and never will do the work of our Christian institutions...
That raised an immediate issue over which labor and veterans were already arguing. What does the Selective Service Act mean when it says that a private employer must, if possible, give a veteran back his job for at least one year? Does it mean that an employer must, if necessary, lay off a man with greater seniority-possibly even a veteran of World...
...month ago, in an order to all U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Francis Biddle directed: "... Since the 'superseniority' interpretation is not free from doubt under the Act, the Department will expect to present the issue to the courts [when representing job-hunting veterans] with full candor...