Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe." said he, "that we have got to thoroughly test out and to use the method of free bargaining," and when the Government starts pressuring, "then I believe it's not free." The "conditions are certainly not here at the moment," he added, for invoking the Taft-Hartley Act provision calling for a fact-finding board ("All the facts are pretty well known") and an So-day cooling-off period when a strike threatens to "imperil the national health or safety...
Urrutia of late had been trying to act like a President. He vetoed some minor Castro decrees, held up others. He favored going slow with land reform. But to Castro, his most maddening act was his denunciation of Cuba's Communists as "criminals" just when Castro was making common cause with the Reds in a bitter tirade against a committee of the U.S. Senate...
...would have believed," he wrote, "that the daughters of that mighty city would one day be wandering as serv ants and slaves on the shores of Egypt and Africa? Today we must translate the words of the Scriptures into deeds, and instead of speaking saintly words we must act them...
...prolonged strike could throw millions out of work and close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...
...part of his unofficial diplomatic career, Capitalist Winston has been tapped by Mayor Robert Wagner to act as New York City's High Commissioner at trade fairs in Poznan, Zagreb, Vienna, Paris. The U.S. Department of Commerce took Winston on as special adviser for trade fairs, and last year Winston was U.S. Special Delegate to the UNESCO General Conference in Paris...