Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council, "most important of College organizations," generally follows two courses of action, according to Dean Bender. "It calls attention to grievances and needs of the students, such as parking shortages and unsatisfactory football ticket sales, and it studies the University's major system and policies with the long range interests of the students as its guide...
Four days later the Boston papers reported that Vatican authorities said Archbishop Cushing was within his rights in "silencing" Father Feeney and described the disciplinary action as valid. These same authorities described the conflict as a purely local one to be decided by local authorities (the Archbishop). In case of an appeal the matter could be decided by a congregation of the Holy Sec. But the Archbishop had already spoken, and so Father Feeney appealed the decision...
...homicidal maniac, the technical Hollywood name for someone who kills people, Cagney is pleasantly unconvincing. As a story of criminals and what makes them tick, "White Heat" is more so. But for classical cigarette-in-the-corner-of-the-mouth action, the movie is the best in a long, long time...
Since the new government took over in Czechoslovakia, control of that country's Union of Students has passed to Action Committees in each of the universities. These Committees, whose members represent all four major political parties, were rejustituted in February, 1948, by Premier Gottwald...
...Action Committees, the NSA reports, "now act as policy-making organs, drawing programs and making all political decisions. . . . All political problems are decided by the Action Committees "so the faculty (departmental) unions can carry out their programs...