Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admiration your March 18 article on the new country of Ghana and the Rev. Martin L. King's affection for it. I believe that the late Senator Theodore G. Bilbo had an excellent idea when he obtained 2,500,000 Negro signatures and proposed the Greater Liberia act, which called for federal aid in the voluntary repatriation of Negroes who were illegally brought against their will to this hemisphere as slaves. A revival of this bill would indeed settle the present racial conflict for the benefit of both races...
...administration of union welfare funds. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell let it be known that his department was studying several different types of possible legislation. Beyond that, there was talk of tougher measures that labor experts ranging up to Secretary Mitchell deem restrictive, e.g., amendment of the Clayton Act so as to make labor unions subject, along with business, to monopoly laws. Said a high-ranking Government economist: "In the hands of one man there is the power to withhold all labor from an industry. That's a terrific amount of power...
...moral offense so vast that anything else is anticlimax; long before he took the stand in Washington, he had confessed that he borrowed more than $300,000 (without interest) from his union's treasury for personal investments. His inability to recognize that there was anything wrong with the act is perhaps the most damning indictment of all. While Beck's performance drew the headlines, a Washington jury found newspaperman Seymour Peck guilty of contempt of Congress [See PRESS]. Ex-Communist Peck had freely testified to his own past deeds but declined to name other men he had known...
...Open Road. Trying to follow each poet's vision, the music seemed to have little vision of its own, but it was skillfully scored. It evoked a lusty boo or two along with the applause in usually well-mannered Carnegie Hall. ¶Ernst Krenek's one-act opera. The Bell Tower, was premiered at the University of Illinois' Festival of Contemporary Arts, proved to be a stark, tight, declamatory work with a plot revolving about the dark deeds of a diabolical bell caster, Banna-donna. The score by Vienna-born Composer Krenek, 56, impressed critics with...
...event of an atomic attack, the Commerce Department fears that "corporate amnesia" may cripple many companies; casualties may be so great that the boards of most companies which require a quorum to make vital decisions would be unable to act or pick successors to those killed. Last week, complying with Commerce's new "continuity of management" program, Western Union asked stockholders to approve two simple changes in company bylaws. The changes: 1) remaining board members may elect new directors with "less than a quorum," and 2) surviving vice presidents may succeed the president in order of seniority. Other...