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Word: enacted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Hideki Tojo had plans for a Russian Pearl Harbor, the warning was drowned in the clatter of his windy generalities. Never had a Diet session commanded the airtime that Radio Tokyo devoted to this one. Yet never had there seemed less reason for calling the mummers to enact their pantomime. Said Tojo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Hirohito Is a Little Depressed | 6/28/1943 | See Source »

...simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the United States." Congress must enact a "new Federal civil-rights statute." It must outlaw the poll tax in Federal elections and "Jim Crowism on all types of interstate carriers." It must pass a "Federal anti-lynching statute." To implement this policy, it must use the bludgeon of hard cash. All Government grants to states and communities, both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dingy Storyteller | 5/24/1943 | See Source »

Benes or Bedlam. Last week, in Collier's, the Polish Premier turned on Russia with a proposal to enact a federation of small states from the Baltic to the Black Sea, a bloc which would wall off the Soviet Union within its prewar boundaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Plain Talk from a Pole | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

...78th Congress had yet to enact an important law-yet by last week it had reversed the whole legislative trend of the last ten years. For a decade Congress, at the Administration's prodding, has hounded economic royalists, corporations, public utilities. Now the 78th, turning squarely around, was hounding the Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Turnabout | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...William Prince), a farm boy who leaves his girl (Mary Rolfe) and his family to become a soldier. Quizz goes to training camp and then to war, and, on a tiny island in the Pacific, is part of a gallant, malaria-ridden remnant that face war's horror, enact its heroism and succumb to its fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 19, 1942 | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

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