Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the Labor Committee was ready with the bill to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Like the filibuster battle, the measure reflected the Administration's stubborn scorn of compromise. After 3½ weeks of hearings and haggling, New Dealing Chairman Elbert D. Thomas reported it out exactly the way the White House had recommended. It drew the teeth of the Taft-Hartley Act and reinstated the Wagner Act with a few minor changes. Republicans in committee had tried to offer some amendments, but Thomas' Democratic majority had turned down every one, reporting the bill...
...Just Act Dumb." Perle admits that the duties of "unofficial hostess" to the President are heavy. "I have to know exactly what's on his mind and what he thinks of people all the time," she explains. "I know, too. I don't have to call him and ask." Then, too, people pester her. "They all know I can get to the White House any time I need to. Lots of them try to pump me to find out who's going to be fired and who's going to get hired." She winked. "I just...
...best gags are delivered by Sid Caesar (Make Mine Manhattan), Comedienne Imogene Coca (who still looks too young to have played in Hey wood Broun's 1931 Shoot the Works), and Singer Mary McCarty (Small Wonder). With his insane leer and try-anything manner, Caesar can act out an entire horse opera singlehanded-from horses to Indian smoke signals to bullets ricocheting off a rock. Rubber-faced Imogene Coca is just as funny modeling a moulting fur coat as she is imitating what Broadway columnists sometimes call a "chantootsie." Bouncy Mary McCarty can tear apart a popular song with...
...sedition in the educational institutions of Massachusetts. The Teachers' Oath Law of 1935 requires all teachers in the state to swear that they will uphold the United States Constitution. Is only function has been to "expose" three instructors who refused to sign as a matter of principals. The Smith Act, making it a crime to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. government, has not brought a single conviction in this state since its passage by Congress in 1940. Only one man has ever been convicted under the Massachusetts Criminal Anti-Anarchy Act, and that conviction was quashed over 20 years...
...Football Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, which is headed by William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, will meet in Chicago today to act on recodification of its football rules book...