Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring and, as usual, the fancy of John L. Lewis and his United Mine Workers had lightly turned to thoughts of strikes. Complying with the terms of the Smith-Connally Act, they formally announced their intention. That meant that the U.S. Government would have to poll 400,000 miners in 3,000-odd voting booths to find out whether they did or did not want to strike...
...tariff policy, an issue raised by the introduction of a bill to renew for three years the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (and permit further reductions in tariffs). To all nations, particularly Britain, which are inclined to think that multilateral trade is dead past resurrection, Congress' action will be either a surprise or a sign that it is high time for them to go ahead with plans for bilateral trade, empire preference and other deals that exclude...
...short order Woolton unrolled blueprints to provide higher expenditure on national health ($250 millions to $600 millions annually), family allowances, old-age pensions. A far-reaching Education Act, raising the school-leaving age from 14 to 16, will go into operation next month...
...Argentina could not take part; it can still join up if it will "cooperate with the other American nations by identifying itself with the common policy . . . and by orienting its own policy until it achieves its incorporation into the United Nations as a signatory. . . . The final Act of the Conference is open to adhesion by the Argentine nation...
...President's aid. In the 1930 revolution he had been one of the "young lieutenants" who put Getulio Vargas in power. Another "young lieutenant," Eduardo Gomes, was now acclaimed as leader of the anti-Government forces. As a friend of both, João Alberto could easily act as a conciliator...