Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposed to the subjection of China to any foreign power." Moreover, warned the Secretary, if Communist China tried aggression against its Asiatic neighbors, then we "would be confronted by a situation violative of the principles of the United Nations Charter." Pressed to translate this wind into any language meaning action, Acheson was evasive...
Other Protestant leaders and groups sided with the Lutherans. In Nashville, Tenn., the 20th annual convention of Southern Baptist colleges and schools passed a resolution deploring "this unwarranted criticism" and officially regretting the action of the "distinguished American churchman." In Boston, the American Unitarian Association cited its record of opposition to "any legislation that would compromise the traditional principle of church and state," and to any groups "who would try to secure public money . . . for their private institutions...
...American Woolen's profits tumbled 19.8% in 1949's first quarter, President Moses Pendleton bravely tried to prod waiting buyers into action by boosting prices. Last week, conceding that his bluff had been called, Pendleton trimmed an average 9% off the price of fabrics for men's & women's clothes. That meant, the trade estimated, that men's suits next spring would be $2.50 to $5 cheaper...
Mighty Joe Young (Arko; RKO Radio), a fine piece of action-fantasy, provides the most stupendous spectacle of simian shenanigans since King Kong defied attacking airplanes from the mooring mast of the Empire State Building (1933). Its trick photography is admirable, its whopping implausibility almost impeccable. Best of all, it is such a gigantic, reckless spoof, that it is practically irresistible...
...reader expects stories of the war itself, he will not find them. Only a couple involve fighting men at all, and these have nothing to do with front-line action. More typical subjects in the current Foley collection...