Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the old story of espionage. He confirmed previous testimony as it was read back to him-how in 1939, two days after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he had gone to see Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr., and as a repentant man had urged that some action be taken to get Communists out of key places in the Government. He had named names then, among them Alger Hiss's. He had said nothing about the stolen documents in his possession. "Nevertheless, I gave him [Berle] to understand that there was an apparatus working in the Government...
...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...institution has been under pressure for some time by one of Martin Dies' local chapters--the California state senate's committee on subversive activities. This group has a much sterner loyalty oath bill for teachers pending in the state legislature already. It is quite probable that the university's action was an attempt to forestall this bill...
...after the News had refused to retract its charges, 55 of the city's 63 detectives filed a $1,000,000 suit for libel. That was just what the News wanted. In court, it would have the chance to prove Reporter Petit's story-and get some action at last...
...were 20% below the same period a year ago; even its new, fast-drying "Spred-Satin" paint was selling slowly. But Glidden's tall, lean President Dwight P. Joyce was not one to take it lying down. Tired of "too much talk about business conditions and not enough action," he rounded up 32 of his top executives and dispatched them one Saturday morning to 28 Cleveland retail stores to peddle paint...