Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic, I must disagree with the statements of Santa Fe's Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne concerning the "pagan" act of kissing, etc. Further, no one has the right to restrict my smoking or my drinking. This is an invasion of private rights, unwarranted by anything in the Bible...
...Constitution provides that no officer of the U.S. may accept any "present" or "emolument" from any "king, prince or foreign state" without congressional approval. A statute provides that all foreign decorations and gifts to U.S. officials shall be received by the State Department and stored until an act of Congress authorizes delivery. An executive order specifies that delivery may be made only to retired personnel. Result: the State Department has a storehouse full of 6,000 gifts and decorations...
...Indians themselves. Some Indians still seethe with resentment. Grumbled Arizona Apache Jesse Stevens about Hollywood's cowboy-and-Indian movies: "One white guy always managed to kill off a bunch of Indians. They should try hiring some of us sometime so we can show them how real Indians act. I was in a bit part once in an Alan Ladd picture. I got bumped off just like [finger-snap] that...
Baker himself, in a letter in 1926, demonstrated his respect for O'Neill. "When O'Neill was working for me, he showed by the end of the year that he already knew how to write well in the one-act form, but he could not as yet manage the larger forms...
...Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called "tying the whole free world together." the U.S. and United Kingdom NATO representatives agreed to "urge an enlarged Atlantic effort in scientific research and development in support of greater collective security." President Eisenhower promised to ask Congress to amend the Atomic Energy Act so as to permit "close and fruitful" sharing of nuclear secrets between the U.S., Great Britain and "other friendly countries...