Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...activities. Special Assistant Attorney General Thomas J. Donegan informed the court that the jury had been unable to finish its work, and that now, since its term was ended, the Hiss-Chambers case was being turned over to a new jury.* Reporters rushed for telephones to report that no action had been taken. "No indictments!" someone exclaimed. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey looked startled. "Of course there's an indictment," he said, "didn't you get it?" He pulled out mimeographed copies, apologizing for his forgetfulness...
Elector Parks's action changed the expected results by one vote-303 for Truman, 189 for Dewey, 39 for Thurmond. In each state the votes were bundled up and mailed off to Congress. There, on Jan. 6, they would be opened and counted. After that-and not before-Harry Truman would have been legally elected President...
Fine Opportunity. Nevertheless, Murray's action came as a shock to Wolchok and Altman, who had hoped for aid and sympathy from Murray, not liquidation. Murray's order did not dissolve Wolchok's union; Sam would be allowed to hang on to as many of his members as he could. But in the face of an organizing drive by the Amalgamated, that probably wouldn't be very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers...
Last week, for the third time since World War II ended, there was war in Indonesia between The Netherlands troops and native nationalists. The Dutch started it. As they had before, they called it "police action"-a necessary step which, they said, they had been "regretfully obliged" to take against terrorists...
...Hear It? In Merritton, Ont., Mrs. Ruby Lawrence called all the town councilmen at 4 a.m., had them listen to the cocks crowing outside her window, succeeded in getting action toward passage of an antinoise ordinance...