Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great House debate on the tariff fizzled. For four days, Republicans fumed and spumed the ancient theory that tariff cuts mean U.S. unemployment and economic ruin. Democrats, huffing & puffing under the attack, argued that renewal of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act, with authority for further tariff cuts up to 50%, was vital to U.S. prosperity and U.S. world policy...
...agreed at Yalta, the Security Council could not act if one of the Big Powers said no. Russia insisted on retaining this veto because it feared that the majority of nations on the Council would be basically unfriendly. The U.S. also wanted the veto; few politicians believed that the charter could pass the Senate without it. Critics of the veto said that it would make U.N.C.I.O. helpless in all disputes involving great powers or their friends. Veto advocates contended it was better to bow to realities than to pretend that the great powers could be covered by the world organization...
...deeply enmeshed in "regionalism" as the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is creating a "sphere of influence" in the states along its borders. The U.S. has had its region since it had a Monroe Doctrine, rewritten and modified this year in the still highly regional Act of Chapultepec...
...since been commissioned and promoted to the rank of Lientenant Colonel, in which capacity he acted as a representative of the War Department in Congress at the time of the passage of the Contract Settlement Act. Previously he had worked with Judge John J. Parker on the American Bar Association Committee for the reform of civil procedure...
...destroyed or damaged churches, had raised 1,000,000 kroner ($200,000) to start a new church newspaper (the first issue will be published June 1) and had kept close tabs on clergymen who had betrayed the church in its hour of need. Bishop Berggrav's first official act last week was to suspend 50 quisling pastors...