Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bearlike John Lewis announced his appearance by rolling a rock down the mountain. Three days before the negotiations began, he filed formal notice of a labor dispute under the Smith-Connally Act-to which he referred as "that grotesque slave statute." Thus he paved the way for a legal strike vote within 30 days, and in so doing turned the act-passed by Congress in anger at the 1943 coal walkouts-into a weapon...
...result was the Act of Chapultepec (named for the castle where the Conference met, and where U.S. soldiers invading Mexico died for "Yankee imperialism" in 1847). By this declaration, the U.S. and its Latin sisters ditched a cardinal Pan-American principle (often violated in fact but never in theory): that American nations should not intervene, singly or together, in each other's external affairs. In the Act of Chapultepec, the signers agreed to fight anybody, whether within or outside the Western Hemisphere, who attacks or threatens their territory or "political integrity" during the remainder of World...
...limiting the pledge to the duration. Senators Austin and Connally got around the necessity of immediate Senate approval (the President's emergency powers are enough). By promising to write the pledge into treaties and submit them for ratification later, the Senators gave the Act of Chapultepec a fair chance of becoming permanent policy...
Working under the authority of Congress's Vocational Rehabilitation Act, the Guidance Center will deal primarily with disabled veterans. It will be the purpose of its staff to outline a vocational program on recommend a particular school and course of study. The counsellor for veterans will cooperate with the Center only in the case of men applying or admission to Harvard College or the University...
...special contract with the government empowers the Center to act only in cases referred by the Veterans' Administration. It has not been authorized to serve veterans who apply to it in any other...