Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized particularly for the purpose of pushing fair educational practices legislation, the Massachusetts Committee for Equality in Education is an amalgam of some 30 political and religious organizations and independent individuals. The Harvard Teachers Union and the Students for Democratic Action are on its letterhead...
...Kremlin, got no such spiritual uplift from the pact. Russia sent a formal protest to each of the sponsoring nations, denouncing the treaty as an unfriendly, aggressive act. To their separate notes of protest, the Russians got one brisk reply, issued by all twelve-the first joint action of the North Atlantic nations. Said the foreign ministers to the Kremlin: "The text of the treaty itself is the best answer to such misrepresentations and allegations...
...summary action could squelch the family squabbles of the armed services, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson was off to a booming start. The day after he officially took over from James Forrestal, he called in the press to proclaim his plans for an enforced peace, "right now, in one bite, as far as the law will permit...
...time on our side? This is not a question that can be answered except within strict limits. We have certainly not an unlimited period of time before a settlement should be achieved. The utmost vigilance should be practiced, but I do not think myself that violent or precipitate action should be taken now. War is not inevitable. The Germans have a wise saying, 'The trees do not grow up to the sky.' Often something happens to turn or mitigate the course of events...
...nine other Latin American countries, capital punishment has long been outlawed. The last Peruvian to suffer the death penalty was a bandit executed by a firing squad in Cajamarca 42 years ago. Last week the Peruvian military junta restored the death penalty for murder, treason and any homicidal action which might "endanger the lives of large numbers of people." Dictator-President Manuel Odria's decree was an obvious warning to the outlawed APRA party: any homicidal action against the junta would endanger many a life...